Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035

How does Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035 compare with other K-12 school buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 2,128 K-12 school buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035's ENERGY STAR score of 61 compares with an average of 74 across the 2,016 that report a score; it scores higher than 25% of them and lower than 75%. Its site EUI of 24.3 kBtu/ft² is about 30% below the average of 34.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 18% below the group average of 2.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 55,458 sq ft, it is about 57% below the average floor area of 129,123 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 4 years later than the group's average year built (1976). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

How has Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 14 in 2022 to 61 in 2024 (+47 points). Site EUI moved from 42.3 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 24.3 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 43% decrease. Reported emissions went from 163 tCO₂e to 91 tCO₂e over the same span (down 44%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 61 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 61 means the building performs better than about 61% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 61 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 14 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. Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035's 24.3 kBtu/ft² across 55,458 sq ft works out to about 1.3 billion Btu (395 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 403,850 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035 to report its energy use?

Milpitas Great Mall Parkway - 341 Great Mall Pkwy, Milpitas, Ca 95035 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:28112772:2024). 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.