Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road

How does Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road 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 #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road's ENERGY STAR score of 60 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 15% of them and lower than 84%. Its site EUI of 206.4 kBtu/ft² is about 26% above the average of 164.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 13.2 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 27% above the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 50,251 sq ft, it is about 34% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2020, 24 years later 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 #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 4 California disclosures for Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road, covering report years 2020–2023. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 70 in 2020 to 60 in 2023 (-10 points); its best year on file was 2020, at 70. Site EUI moved from 173.7 kBtu/ft² (2020) to 206.4 kBtu/ft² (2023), an 19% increase. Reported emissions went from 508 tCO₂e to 665 tCO₂e over the same span (up 31%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 60 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 60 means the building performs better than about 60% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 60 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 15 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. Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road's 206.4 kBtu/ft² across 50,251 sq ft works out to about 10.4 billion Btu (3,040 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 1,888,321 kWh of electricity and 39,161 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road to report its energy use?

Store #612 - 4631 Churn Creek Road 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:16903329:2023). 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.