Toll House Hotel

How does Toll House Hotel compare with other hotel buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,599 hotel buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Toll House Hotel's ENERGY STAR score of 89 compares with an average of 74 across the 1,525 that report a score; it scores higher than 61% of them and lower than 37%. Its site EUI of 69.5 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 65.6 kBtu/ft². Its emissions intensity of 4.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 10% above the group average of 4.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 76,640 sq ft, it is about half of the average floor area of 167,786 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1983, 5 years earlier than the group's average year built (1988). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,812 hotel buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 65 and a site EUI of 77.8 kBtu/ft².

How has Toll House Hotel's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Toll House Hotel, covering report years 2022–2023. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 100 in 2022 to 89 in 2023 (-11 points); its best year on file was 2022, at 100. Site EUI moved from 28.9 kBtu/ft² (2022) to 69.5 kBtu/ft² (2023), an 140% increase. Reported emissions went from 118 tCO₂e to 334 tCO₂e over the same span (up 184%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 89 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 89 means the building performs better than about 89% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 89 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). 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. Toll House Hotel's 69.5 kBtu/ft² across 76,640 sq ft works out to about 5.3 billion Btu (1,561 MWh-equivalent) in 2023. The disclosure also reports 718,574 kWh of electricity and 30,075 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Toll House Hotel to report its energy use?

Toll House Hotel 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 2023 disclosure (source record california:27332384:2023). 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.