Sacramento Home Store

How does Sacramento Home Store 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. Sacramento Home Store's ENERGY STAR score of 91 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 53% of them and lower than 45%. Its site EUI of 27.0 kBtu/ft² is about half of the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 43% below the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 74,000 sq ft, it is about 40% below the average floor area of 124,053 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2007, 16 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 91 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 91 means the building performs better than about 91% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 91 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). 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. Sacramento Home Store's 27.0 kBtu/ft² across 74,000 sq ft works out to about 2 billion Btu (586 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 610,334 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Sacramento Home Store to report its energy use?

Sacramento Home Store 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:57117893:2024). 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.