Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway

How does Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway 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 #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway's ENERGY STAR score of 78 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 48% of them and lower than 48%. Its site EUI of 118.9 kBtu/ft² is about 28% 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 8.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 23% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,032 sq ft, it is about 35% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1900, 96 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 #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway, covering report years 2020–2022. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 74 in 2020 to 78 in 2022 (+4 points). Site EUI moved from 124.8 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 118.9 kBtu/ft² (2022), a 5% decrease. Reported emissions went from 377 tCO₂e to 401 tCO₂e over the same span (up 7%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 78 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 78 means the building performs better than about 78% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 78 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. Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway's 118.9 kBtu/ft² across 50,032 sq ft works out to about 5.9 billion Btu (1,743 MWh-equivalent) in 2022. The disclosure also reports 1,667,953 kWh of electricity and 2,149 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway to report its energy use?

Store #483 - 5510 Monterey Highway 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:16903330:2022). 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.