Seaside Meadows (Ds42)

How does Seaside Meadows (Ds42) compare with other multifamily housing buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 10,630 multifamily housing buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Seaside Meadows (Ds42)'s ENERGY STAR score of 50 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 10% of them and lower than 90%. Its site EUI of 44.9 kBtu/ft² is about 31% above the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 2.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 33% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 496,568 sq ft, it is about 229% above the average floor area of 150,919 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 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

How has Seaside Meadows (Ds42)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 4 California disclosures for Seaside Meadows (Ds42), covering report years 2020–2023. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 82 in 2020 to 50 in 2023 (-32 points); its best year on file was 2021, at 99. Site EUI moved from 42.7 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 44.9 kBtu/ft² (2023), an 5% increase. Reported emissions went from 1,173 tCO₂e to 1,385 tCO₂e over the same span (up 18%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 50 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 50 means the building performs better than about 50% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 50 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 25 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. 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. Seaside Meadows (Ds42)'s 44.9 kBtu/ft² across 496,568 sq ft works out to about 22.3 billion Btu (6,534 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 3,383,989 kWh of electricity and 106,575 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Seaside Meadows (Ds42) to report its energy use?

Seaside Meadows (Ds42) 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:6557656:2023). 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.