Tahoe Valley Townhomes

How does Tahoe Valley Townhomes compare with other multifamily housing buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 10,630 multifamily housing buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Tahoe Valley Townhomes's ENERGY STAR score of 75 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 27% of them and lower than 72%. Its site EUI of 73.3 kBtu/ft² is about twice the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.9 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 86% above the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 62,471 sq ft, it is about 59% below the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1979, 9 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 59,945 multifamily housing buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 70 and a site EUI of 59.0 kBtu/ft².

How has Tahoe Valley Townhomes's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Tahoe Valley Townhomes, covering report years 2019–2020. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 74 in 2019 to 75 in 2020 (+1 points). Site EUI moved from 74.2 kBtu/ft² (2019) to 73.3 kBtu/ft² (2020), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 264 tCO₂e to 242 tCO₂e over the same span (down 8%).

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. Tahoe Valley Townhomes's 73.3 kBtu/ft² across 62,471 sq ft works out to about 4.6 billion Btu (1,342 MWh-equivalent) in 2020. The disclosure also reports 294,223 kWh of electricity and 34,101 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Tahoe Valley Townhomes to report its energy use?

Tahoe Valley Townhomes 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 2020 disclosure (source record california:4848338:2020). 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.