Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church

How does Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church compare with other worship facility buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 132 worship facility buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church's ENERGY STAR score of 76 compares with an average of 72 across the 77 that report a score; it scores higher than 36% of them and lower than 61%. Its site EUI of 11.9 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 23.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about half of the group average of 1.5 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 55,000 sq ft, it is about 45% below the average floor area of 99,110 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1954, 25 years earlier than the group's average year built (1979). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,035 worship facility buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 50 and a site EUI of 47.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 76 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 76 means the building performs better than about 76% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 76 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. Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church's 11.9 kBtu/ft² across 55,000 sq ft works out to about 0.7 billion Btu (192 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 186,832 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church to report its energy use?

Mt. Rubidoux Seventh-Day Adventist Church 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:59282892:2024). 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.