Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse

How does Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse compare with other refrigerated warehouse buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 297 refrigerated warehouse buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse's ENERGY STAR score of 98 compares with an average of 54 across the 239 that report a score; it scores higher than 91% of them and lower than 7%. Its site EUI of 15.0 kBtu/ft² is about 79% below the average of 71.8 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 78% below the group average of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 58,860 sq ft, it is about 69% below the average floor area of 189,524 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2018, 27 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 472 refrigerated warehouse buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 52 and a site EUI of 76.3 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 98 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 98 means the building performs better than about 98% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 98 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. Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse's 15.0 kBtu/ft² across 58,860 sq ft works out to about 0.9 billion Btu (259 MWh-equivalent) in 2021. The disclosure also reports 259,179 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse to report its energy use?

Firestone Walker Brewery Cold Storage Warehouse 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 2021 disclosure (source record california:23742510:2021). 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.