Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments

How does Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments compare with other multifamily housing buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 10,630 multifamily housing buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments's ENERGY STAR score of 86 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 40% of them and lower than 58%. Its site EUI of 22.9 kBtu/ft² is about 33% below the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 28% below the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 100,551 sq ft, it is about 33% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1990 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

How has Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 6 California disclosures for Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments, covering report years 2019–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 85 in 2019 to 86 in 2024 (+1 points); its best year on file was 2021, at 100. Site EUI moved from 26.5 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 22.9 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 14% decrease. Reported emissions went from 181 tCO₂e to 153 tCO₂e over the same span (down 15%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 86 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 86 means the building performs better than about 86% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 86 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). 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. Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments's 22.9 kBtu/ft² across 100,551 sq ft works out to about 2.3 billion Btu (675 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 675,965 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments to report its energy use?

Palm Mesa Apartments: Palm Mesa Apartments 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:6835762:2024). 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.