Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour

How does Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour's ENERGY STAR score of 2 compares with an average of 75 across the 4,912 that report a score; it scores higher than 3% of them and lower than 97%. Its site EUI of 130.5 kBtu/ft² is about 131% above the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 8.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 131% above the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 59,328 sq ft, it is about 61% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1994, 9 years later 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 2 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 2 means the building performs better than about 2% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 2 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 73 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. Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour's 130.5 kBtu/ft² across 59,328 sq ft works out to about 7.7 billion Btu (2,269 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 1,893,185 kWh of electricity and 11,897 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour to report its energy use?

Cio Sorrento Mesa, Llc-10394 Pacific Center Cour 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:14802973:2020). 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.