Sutter Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard

How does Sutter Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard 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 Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard's ENERGY STAR score of 46 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 36% of them and lower than 63%. Its site EUI of 230.7 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with 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 13.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 157,765 sq ft, it is about 64% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1947, 30 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 46 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 46 means the building performs better than about 46% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 46 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 29 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. Sutter Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard's 230.7 kBtu/ft² across 157,765 sq ft works out to about 36.4 billion Btu (10,667 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 5,410,831 kWh of electricity and 179,667 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Sutter Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard to report its energy use?

Sutter Health-1420 N. Tracy Boulevard 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 2024 disclosure (source record california:12396687:2024). 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.