Phs | Ca | St. Francis Medical Center

How does Phs | Ca | St. Francis 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. Phs | Ca | St. Francis Medical Center's ENERGY STAR score of 12 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 11% of them and lower than 87%. Its site EUI of 276.3 kBtu/ft² is about 16% above the average of 238.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 16.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 19% above the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 535,956 sq ft, it is about 24% above the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1945, 32 years earlier 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.

How has Phs | Ca | St. Francis Medical Center's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Phs | Ca | St. Francis Medical Center, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 15 in 2023 to 12 in 2024 (-3 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 15. Site EUI moved from 280.1 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 276.3 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 8,921 tCO₂e to 8,961 tCO₂e over the same span (up 0%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 12 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 12 means the building performs better than about 12% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 12 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 63 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 | St. Francis Medical Center's 276.3 kBtu/ft² across 535,956 sq ft works out to about 148.1 billion Btu (43,399 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 21,945,878 kWh of electricity and 751,501 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Phs | Ca | St. Francis Medical Center to report its energy use?

Phs | Ca | St. Francis 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:35055323:2024). 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.