Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue

How does Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 61 compares with an average of 75 across the 4,912 that report a score; it scores higher than 22% of them and lower than 77%. Its site EUI of 60.1 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 59,209 sq ft, it is about 61% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1981, 4 years earlier than the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 61 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 61 means the building performs better than about 61% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 61 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 14 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. 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. Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue's 60.1 kBtu/ft² across 59,209 sq ft works out to about 3.6 billion Btu (1,043 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 743,664 kWh of electricity and 8,446 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue to report its energy use?

Br44292-Santa Clara Commerce Park - 2340-2348 Walsh Avenue 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:29841137:2024). 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.