La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill

How does La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill's ENERGY STAR score of 50 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 18% of them and lower than 81%. Its site EUI of 76.0 kBtu/ft² is about 16% above 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 4.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 57,997 sq ft, it is about 65% 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 50 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 50 means the building performs better than about 50% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 50 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 25 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. 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. La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill's 76.0 kBtu/ft² across 57,997 sq ft works out to about 4.4 billion Btu (1,292 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 845,521 kWh of electricity and 14,126 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill to report its energy use?

La Quinta Inn & Suites Morgan Hill 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:27292889:2024). 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.