San Jose 2222 Qume Drive

How does San Jose 2222 Qume Drive compare with other manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 982 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 90.1 kBtu/ft² is about 29% below the average of 127.7 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 27% below the group average of 7.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 79,685 sq ft, it is about 41% below the average floor area of 135,409 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1990, 8 years later than the group's average year built (1982). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 2,372 manufacturing/industrial plant buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 67 and a site EUI of 126.3 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 90.1 kBtu/ft² mean?

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 Jose 2222 Qume Drive's 90.1 kBtu/ft² across 79,685 sq ft works out to about 7.2 billion Btu (2,104 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 823,632 kWh of electricity and 42,955 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires San Jose 2222 Qume Drive to report its energy use?

San Jose 2222 Qume Drive 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 2023 disclosure (source record california:16087508:2023). 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.