Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455)

How does Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455) 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. Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455)'s ENERGY STAR score of 89 compares with an average of 82 across the 9,612 that report a score; it scores higher than 45% of them and lower than 53%. Its site EUI of 21.5 kBtu/ft² is about 38% below the average of 34.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 33% below the group average of 2.1 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 170,790 sq ft, it is about 13% above the average floor area of 150,919 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1969, 19 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 Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455), covering report years 2023–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 88 in 2023 to 89 in 2024 (+1 points). Site EUI moved from 21.7 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 21.5 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 1% decrease. Reported emissions went from 259 tCO₂e to 239 tCO₂e over the same span (down 8%).

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. Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455)'s 21.5 kBtu/ft² across 170,790 sq ft works out to about 3.7 billion Btu (1,076 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 980,509 kWh of electricity and 3,242 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455) to report its energy use?

Valley Park Apartments - Essex (Vl455) 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:23371029:2024). 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.