Store#600 - 386 Elm Avenue

How does Store#600 - 386 Elm Avenue 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#600 - 386 Elm Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 81 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 59% of them and lower than 38%. Its site EUI of 156.2 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with 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 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 43,738 sq ft, it is about 43% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1979, 17 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 81 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 81 means the building performs better than about 81% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 81 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#600 - 386 Elm Avenue's 156.2 kBtu/ft² across 43,738 sq ft works out to about 6.8 billion Btu (2,002 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 1,545,400 kWh of electricity and 15,385 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Store#600 - 386 Elm Avenue to report its energy use?

Store#600 - 386 Elm Avenue 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:33935414:2023). 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.