Carmelite Sisters Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Los Angeles

How does Carmelite Sisters Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Los Angeles compare with other other - lodging/residential buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 26 other - lodging/residential buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 25.0 kBtu/ft² is about 40% below the average of 42.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about half of the group average of 2.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 58,749 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 120,634 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1923, 51 years earlier than the group's average year built (1974). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 327 other - lodging/residential buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 75.4 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 25.0 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. Carmelite Sisters Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Los Angeles's 25.0 kBtu/ft² across 58,749 sq ft works out to about 1.5 billion Btu (430 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 209,145 kWh of electricity and 6,985 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Carmelite Sisters Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Los Angeles to report its energy use?

Carmelite Sisters Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Los Angeles 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 2020 disclosure (source record california:16096710:2020). 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.