Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449

How does Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449 compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449's ENERGY STAR score of 100 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 91% of them. Its site EUI of 18.2 kBtu/ft² is about 72% below 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 1.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 70% below the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 67,889 sq ft, it is about 60% below the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1986 construction date is close to 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.

How has Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score was 100 in both 2022 and 2024. Site EUI moved from 18.3 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 18.2 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 85 tCO₂e to 82 tCO₂e over the same span (down 4%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 100 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: 100 is the top of the scale. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 100 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. Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449's 18.2 kBtu/ft² across 67,889 sq ft works out to about 1.2 billion Btu (362 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 362,493 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449 to report its energy use?

Sea Venture Beach Hotel - 100 Ocean View Ave, Pismo Beach, Ca 93449 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:25430872:2024). 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.