Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Maint. Facility

How does Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Maint. Facility compare with other other - services buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 39 other - services buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 93.6 kBtu/ft² is about 51% above the average of 61.9 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 5.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 47% above the group average of 3.9 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 71,000 sq ft, it is about 45% below the average floor area of 128,926 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2008, 27 years later than the group's average year built (1981).

What does a site EUI of 93.6 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. Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Maint. Facility's 93.6 kBtu/ft² across 71,000 sq ft works out to about 6.6 billion Btu (1,948 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 1,240,267 kWh of electricity and 20,746 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Maint. Facility to report its energy use?

Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Maint. Facility 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:2485854:2018). 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.