Sutter Lakeside Hospital

How does Sutter Lakeside 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 Lakeside Hospital's ENERGY STAR score of 69 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 53% of them and lower than 47%. Its site EUI of 201.1 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 14.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is roughly in line with the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 94,371 sq ft, it is about 78% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. Its 1977 construction date is close to 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 69 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 69 means the building performs better than about 69% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 69 falls in band C — below median (55–69). It sits 6 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 Lakeside Hospital's 201.1 kBtu/ft² across 94,371 sq ft works out to about 19 billion Btu (5,562 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 3,232,998 kWh of electricity for the year.

Which law requires Sutter Lakeside Hospital to report its energy use?

Sutter Lakeside 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:5817813:2018). 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.