Food 4 Less Porterville

How does Food 4 Less Porterville compare with other supermarket/grocery store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 975 supermarket/grocery store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Food 4 Less Porterville's ENERGY STAR score of 77 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 46% of them and lower than 52%. Its site EUI of 122.1 kBtu/ft² is about 26% below the average of 164.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 8.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 16% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,000 sq ft, it is about 35% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2004, 8 years later than the group's average year built (1996). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,646 supermarket/grocery store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 176.1 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 77 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 77 means the building performs better than about 77% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 77 falls in band B — above median (70–84). 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. Food 4 Less Porterville's 122.1 kBtu/ft² across 50,000 sq ft works out to about 6.1 billion Btu (1,789 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 1,788,602 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Food 4 Less Porterville to report its energy use?

Food 4 Less Porterville 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:27577283:2023). 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.