Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx

How does Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx 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. Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx's ENERGY STAR score of 79 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 52% of them and lower than 45%. Its site EUI of 139.4 kBtu/ft² is about 15% 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 9.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 10% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 52,400 sq ft, it is about 32% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1988, 8 years earlier than 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 79 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 79 means the building performs better than about 79% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 79 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. Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx's 139.4 kBtu/ft² across 52,400 sq ft works out to about 7.3 billion Btu (2,141 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 1,842,514 kWh of electricity and 8,515 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx to report its energy use?

Save Mart #461 Foodmaxx 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:6810887:2018). 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.