Rancho Bernardo Village

How does Rancho Bernardo Village compare with other supermarket/grocery store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 975 supermarket/grocery store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Rancho Bernardo Village's ENERGY STAR score of 80 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 55% of them and lower than 41%. Its site EUI of 137.8 kBtu/ft² is about 16% below the average of 164.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 9.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 13% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 66,823 sq ft, it is about 13% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1999 construction date is close to the group's average year built (1996). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,646 supermarket/grocery store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 176.1 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 80 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 80 means the building performs better than about 80% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 80 falls in band B — above median (70–84). 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. Rancho Bernardo Village's 137.8 kBtu/ft² across 66,823 sq ft works out to about 9.2 billion Btu (2,699 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 1,888,055 kWh of electricity and 27,631 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Rancho Bernardo Village to report its energy use?

Rancho Bernardo Village 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 2018 disclosure (source record california:6368765:2018). 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.