Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob

How does Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob compare with other medical office buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 602 medical office buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob's ENERGY STAR score of 63 compares with an average of 63 across the 546 that report a score; it scores higher than 43% of them and lower than 57%. Its site EUI of 82.1 kBtu/ft² is about 13% below the average of 94.3 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 14% below the group average of 5.6 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 57,487 sq ft, it is about 43% below the average floor area of 100,847 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1983, 8 years earlier than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,266 medical office buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 92.2 kBtu/ft².

How has Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 5 California disclosures for Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob, covering report years 2020–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score was 63 in both 2020 and 2024. Site EUI moved from 58.6 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 82.1 kBtu/ft² (2024), an 40% increase. Reported emissions went from 221 tCO₂e to 278 tCO₂e over the same span (up 26%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 63 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 63 means the building performs better than about 63% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 63 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 12 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. Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob's 82.1 kBtu/ft² across 57,487 sq ft works out to about 4.7 billion Btu (1,383 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 733,982 kWh of electricity and 21,103 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob to report its energy use?

Phs | Ca | Garden Grove Hospital | Mob 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:11907300:2024). 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.