Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway

How does Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway 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. Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway's ENERGY STAR score of 93 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 92% of them and lower than 6%. Its site EUI of 95.3 kBtu/ft² is about 42% 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 6.3 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 39% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 54,753 sq ft, it is about 28% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1987, 9 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.

How has Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway, covering report years 2020–2022. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 92 in 2020 to 93 in 2022 (+1 points). Site EUI moved from 98.9 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 95.3 kBtu/ft² (2022), a 4% decrease. Reported emissions went from 325 tCO₂e to 347 tCO₂e over the same span (up 7%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 93 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 93 means the building performs better than about 93% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 93 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. Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway's 95.3 kBtu/ft² across 54,753 sq ft works out to about 5.2 billion Btu (1,529 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 1,400,505 kWh of electricity and 3,750 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway to report its energy use?

Store #450 - 2440 South Broadway 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 2022 disclosure (source record california:16903297:2022). 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.