Murrieta Medical Center

How does Murrieta Medical Center compare with other hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 329 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Murrieta Medical Center's ENERGY STAR score of 72 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 55% of them and lower than 44%. Its site EUI of 141.9 kBtu/ft² is about 40% below the average of 238.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about half of the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 253,000 sq ft, it is about 41% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2011, 34 years later than the group's average year built (1978). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 748 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 59 and a site EUI of 238.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 72 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 72 means the building performs better than about 72% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 72 falls in band B — above median (70–84). It sits 3 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. Murrieta Medical Center's 141.9 kBtu/ft² across 253,000 sq ft works out to about 35.9 billion Btu (10,521 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 10,016,661 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Murrieta Medical Center to report its energy use?

Murrieta Medical Center 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:59252594:2024). 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.