San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel

How does San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel's ENERGY STAR score of 96 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 79% of them and lower than 18%. Its site EUI of 65.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 274,202 sq ft, it is about 63% above the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1985, 3 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 96 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 96 means the building performs better than about 96% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 96 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. San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel's 65.2 kBtu/ft² across 274,202 sq ft works out to about 17.9 billion Btu (5,240 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 1,582,911 kWh of electricity and 124,700 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel to report its energy use?

San Diego Marriott La Jolla Hotel 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 2019 disclosure (source record california:10661208:2019). 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.