C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101

How does C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101 compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101's ENERGY STAR score of 63 compares with an average of 75 across the 4,912 that report a score; it scores higher than 24% of them and lower than 75%. Its site EUI of 54.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 99,280 sq ft, it is about 35% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1963, 22 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 63 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 63 means the building performs better than about 63% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 63 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 12 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. C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101's 54.2 kBtu/ft² across 99,280 sq ft works out to about 5.4 billion Btu (1,577 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 1,554,662 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101 to report its energy use?

C24 530 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, Ca 91101 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 2023 disclosure (source record california:6337673:2023). 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.