Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer Avenue

How does Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer Avenue 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-2900 Chanticleer Avenue's ENERGY STAR score of 5 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 7% of them and lower than 92%. Its site EUI of 378.4 kBtu/ft² is about 59% above the average of 238.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 22.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 57% above the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 65,000 sq ft, it is about 85% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1995, 18 years later 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.

How has Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer Avenue's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer Avenue, covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 4 in 2023 to 5 in 2024 (+1 points). Site EUI moved from 393.6 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 378.4 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 4% decrease. Reported emissions went from 1,532 tCO₂e to 1,438 tCO₂e over the same span (down 6%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 5 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 5 means the building performs better than about 5% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 5 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 70 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-2900 Chanticleer Avenue's 378.4 kBtu/ft² across 65,000 sq ft works out to about 24.6 billion Btu (7,208 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 2,746,586 kWh of electricity and 153,730 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer Avenue to report its energy use?

Sutter Health-2900 Chanticleer 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 2024 disclosure (source record california:12396559:2024). 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.