Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices

How does Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices's ENERGY STAR score of 100 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 85% of them. Its site EUI of 83.5 kBtu/ft² is about 11% below the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,012 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2003, 12 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

How has Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 6 California disclosures for Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices, covering report years 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 9 in 2018 to 100 in 2024 (+91 points). Site EUI moved from 187.4 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 83.5 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 55% decrease. Reported emissions went from 600 tCO₂e to 263 tCO₂e over the same span (down 56%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 100 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: 100 is the top of the scale. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 100 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. Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices's 83.5 kBtu/ft² across 50,012 sq ft works out to about 4.2 billion Btu (1,224 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports -5,969 kWh of electricity and 13,627 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices to report its energy use?

Kaiser Permanente - Ca2881 - Palmdale Medical Offices 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:2551365:2024). 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.