Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach

How does Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach's ENERGY STAR score of 94 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 73% of them and lower than 24%. Its site EUI of 131.7 kBtu/ft² is about twice the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about twice the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 93,094 sq ft, it is about 45% below the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2016, 28 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 an ENERGY STAR score of 94 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 94 means the building performs better than about 94% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 94 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. Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach's 131.7 kBtu/ft² across 93,094 sq ft works out to about 12.3 billion Btu (3,593 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 1,719,822 kWh of electricity and 59,732 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach to report its energy use?

Homewood Suites Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach 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:16085701:2020). 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.