South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh

How does South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh's ENERGY STAR score of 5 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 3% of them and lower than 97%. Its site EUI of 176.1 kBtu/ft² is about 168% above the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 10.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 164% above the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 162,093 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1980, 8 years earlier than 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 South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 12 in 2023 to 5 in 2024 (-7 points); its best year on file was 2023, at 12. Site EUI moved from 137.0 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 176.1 kBtu/ft² (2024), an 29% increase. Reported emissions went from 1,562 tCO₂e to 1,713 tCO₂e over the same span (up 10%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 5 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 5 means the building performs better than about 5% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 5 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 70 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. South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh's 176.1 kBtu/ft² across 162,093 sq ft works out to about 28.5 billion Btu (8,366 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 3,347,983 kWh of electricity and 179,791 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh to report its energy use?

South Lake Tahoe Ca Ltrh 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:34521859:2024). 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.