Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto

How does Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto 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 By Hilton - Palo Alto's ENERGY STAR score of 93 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 71% of them and lower than 27%. Its site EUI of 59.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with 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 3.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 13% below the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 111,585 sq ft, it is about 33% below the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2015, 27 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.

How has Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 6 California disclosures for Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto, covering report years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 91 in 2018 to 93 in 2024 (+2 points); its best year on file was 2020, at 96. Site EUI moved from 60.0 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 59.2 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 410 tCO₂e to 387 tCO₂e over the same span (down 6%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 93 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 93 means the building performs better than about 93% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 93 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 By Hilton - Palo Alto's 59.2 kBtu/ft² across 111,585 sq ft works out to about 6.6 billion Btu (1,936 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 878,344 kWh of electricity and 35,379 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto to report its energy use?

Homewood Suites By Hilton - Palo Alto 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 2024 disclosure (source record california:6332486:2024). 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.