Lake Elsinore Honda

How does Lake Elsinore Honda compare with other vehicle dealership buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 141 vehicle dealership buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Lake Elsinore Honda's ENERGY STAR score of 79 compares with an average of 68 across the 122 that report a score; it scores higher than 52% of them and lower than 44%. Its site EUI of 39.4 kBtu/ft² is about 21% below the average of 49.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 19% below the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 53,425 sq ft, it is about 40% below the average floor area of 89,700 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1800, 182 years earlier than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 318 vehicle dealership buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 57 and a site EUI of 62.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 79 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 79 means the building performs better than about 79% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 79 falls in band B — above median (70–84). 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. Lake Elsinore Honda's 39.4 kBtu/ft² across 53,425 sq ft works out to about 2.1 billion Btu (617 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 519,334 kWh of electricity and 3,890 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Lake Elsinore Honda to report its energy use?

Lake Elsinore Honda 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:47556594:2024). 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.