Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs

How does Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs's ENERGY STAR score of 5 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 3% of them and lower than 97%. Its emissions intensity of 6.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 58% above the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 75,146 sq ft, it is about 55% below the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2009, 21 years later than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 5 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 5 means the building performs better than about 5% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 5 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 70 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Which law requires Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs to report its energy use?

Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs 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 2024 disclosure (source record california:55455495:2024). 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.