Greenwood Center (901-909)

How does Greenwood Center (901-909) compare with other non-refrigerated warehouse buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 2,867 non-refrigerated warehouse buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Greenwood Center (901-909)'s ENERGY STAR score of 80 compares with an average of 68 across the 2,227 that report a score; it scores higher than 51% of them and lower than 47%. Its site EUI of 7.7 kBtu/ft² is about 65% below the average of 21.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 64% below the group average of 1.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 54,285 sq ft, it is about 69% below the average floor area of 173,929 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1974, 14 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 4,723 non-refrigerated warehouse buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 66 and a site EUI of 26.0 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 80 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 80 means the building performs better than about 80% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 80 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. Greenwood Center (901-909)'s 7.7 kBtu/ft² across 54,285 sq ft works out to about 0.4 billion Btu (123 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 123,188 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Greenwood Center (901-909) to report its energy use?

Greenwood Center (901-909) 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 2022 disclosure (source record california:27672888:2022). 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.