9710-9880 Central Ave - 913-959 E Vista Way

How does 9710-9880 Central Ave - 913-959 E Vista Way compare with other strip mall buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 937 strip mall buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 39.8 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 75.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 41% below the group average of 4.7 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 83,179 sq ft, it is about 34% below the average floor area of 125,816 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 5 years earlier than the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,607 strip mall buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 68 and a site EUI of 83.1 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 39.8 kBtu/ft² mean?

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. 9710-9880 Central Ave - 913-959 E Vista Way's 39.8 kBtu/ft² across 83,179 sq ft works out to about 3.3 billion Btu (970 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 966,806 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires 9710-9880 Central Ave - 913-959 E Vista Way to report its energy use?

9710-9880 Central Ave - 913-959 E Vista Way reports under AB 802 (Public Resources Code §25402.10), the legal basis of California's Building Energy Benchmarking Program (statewide), which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2018 disclosure (source record california:6354294:2018). AB 802 requires every California commercial building over 50,000 sq ft to report energy use to the CEC annually; the CEC publicly discloses the results statewide.