Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St

How does Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St compare with other retail store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,742 retail store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St's ENERGY STAR score of 52 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 20% of them and lower than 80%. Its site EUI of 63.3 kBtu/ft² is about 19% above the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 45,000 sq ft, it is about 64% below the average floor area of 124,053 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2010, 19 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,025 retail store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 57.7 kBtu/ft².

How has Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St, covering report years 2019–2021. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 34 in 2019 to 52 in 2021 (+18 points); its best year on file was 2020, at 52. Site EUI moved from 70.9 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 63.3 kBtu/ft² (2021), a 11% decrease. Reported emissions went from 199 tCO₂e to 163 tCO₂e over the same span (down 18%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 52 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 52 means the building performs better than about 52% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 52 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 23 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. Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St's 63.3 kBtu/ft² across 45,000 sq ft works out to about 2.8 billion Btu (835 MWh-equivalent) in 2021. The disclosure also reports 534,458 kWh of electricity and 9,834 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St to report its energy use?

Plaza Pacoima (Pl111) - 13510 Paxton St 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 2021 disclosure (source record california:12444671:2021). 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.