Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital

How does Sutter Santa Rosa Regional 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 Santa Rosa Regional Hospital's ENERGY STAR score of 2 compares with an average of 59 across the 300 that report a score; it scores higher than 4% of them and lower than 94%. Its site EUI of 387.7 kBtu/ft² is about 63% 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 22.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 60% above the group average of 14.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 177,016 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 432,386 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2013, 36 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.

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 2 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 2 means the building performs better than about 2% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 2 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 73 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 Santa Rosa Regional Hospital's 387.7 kBtu/ft² across 177,016 sq ft works out to about 68.6 billion Btu (20,113 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 6,117,141 kWh of electricity and 475,440 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital to report its energy use?

Sutter Santa Rosa Regional 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:5817407:2018). 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.