Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking

How does Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking's ENERGY STAR score of 23 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 7% of them and lower than 92%. Its site EUI of 129.8 kBtu/ft² is about twice the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 7.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about twice the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 275,000 sq ft, it is about 64% above the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1962, 26 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 23 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 23 means the building performs better than about 23% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 23 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 52 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. Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking's 129.8 kBtu/ft² across 275,000 sq ft works out to about 35.7 billion Btu (10,461 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 4,573,950 kWh of electricity and 202,163 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking to report its energy use?

Paradise Point Resort & Spa - Benchmarking 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 2022 disclosure (source record california:27226431:2022). 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.