Messer - City - 680 Baldwin Park Blvd Account

How does Messer - City - 680 Baldwin Park Blvd Account compare with other office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 6,214 office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 19.4 kBtu/ft² is about 66% below the average of 56.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 64% below the group average of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 5,400 sq ft, it is about 96% below the average floor area of 151,937 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1957, 28 years earlier than the group's average year built (1985). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 15,264 office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 59.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 19.4 kBtu/ft² mean?

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. Messer - City - 680 Baldwin Park Blvd Account's 19.4 kBtu/ft² across 5,400 sq ft works out to about 0.1 billion Btu (31 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 29,671 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Messer - City - 680 Baldwin Park Blvd Account to report its energy use?

Messer - City - 680 Baldwin Park Blvd Account 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 2023 disclosure (source record california:33626286:2023). 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.