Belmont Village La Jolla

How does Belmont Village La Jolla compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Belmont Village La Jolla's ENERGY STAR score of 97 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 66% of them and lower than 30%. Its site EUI of 42.4 kBtu/ft² is about 18% below the average of 51.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 15% below the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 230,642 sq ft, it is about 121% above the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2022, 24 years later than the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 97 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 97 means the building performs better than about 97% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 97 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

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. Belmont Village La Jolla's 42.4 kBtu/ft² across 230,642 sq ft works out to about 9.8 billion Btu (2,866 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 2,379,615 kWh of electricity and 16,508 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Belmont Village La Jolla to report its energy use?

Belmont Village La Jolla 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:34046305:2024). 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.