Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital

How does Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital compare with other hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 329 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital's ENERGY STAR score of 75 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 58% of them and lower than 42%. Its site EUI of 199.4 kBtu/ft² is about 16% below the average of 238.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 12.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 12% below the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 125,003 sq ft, it is about 71% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1964, 13 years earlier than the group's average year built (1978). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 748 hospital (general medical & surgical) buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 59 and a site EUI of 238.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 75 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 75 means the building performs better than about 75% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 75 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. Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital's 199.4 kBtu/ft² across 125,003 sq ft works out to about 24.9 billion Btu (7,305 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 3,958,120 kWh of electricity and 112,585 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital to report its energy use?

Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital 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 2018 disclosure (source record california:5817801:2018). 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.