Pacifica Senior Living Union City

How does Pacifica Senior Living Union City compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Pacifica Senior Living Union City's ENERGY STAR score of 61 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 16% of them and lower than 83%. Its site EUI of 104.6 kBtu/ft² is about twice the average of 51.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 6.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about twice the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 20,000 sq ft, it is about 81% below the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2003, 5 years later than the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

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. Pacifica Senior Living Union City's 104.6 kBtu/ft² across 20,000 sq ft works out to about 2.1 billion Btu (613 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 321,839 kWh of electricity and 10,361 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Pacifica Senior Living Union City to report its energy use?

Pacifica Senior Living Union City 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:34540670:2023). 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.