Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North

How does Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 23.2 kBtu/ft² is about 65% below the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 63% below the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 85,000 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1999, 11 years later than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 23.2 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. Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North's 23.2 kBtu/ft² across 85,000 sq ft works out to about 2 billion Btu (578 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 578,859 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North to report its energy use?

Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North 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:12417490:2020). 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.