Villas At Mission San Luis Rey

How does Villas At Mission San Luis Rey compare with other senior living community buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 542 senior living community buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Villas At Mission San Luis Rey's ENERGY STAR score of 12 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 3% of them and lower than 97%. Its site EUI of 61.7 kBtu/ft² is about 20% above the average of 51.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 3.8 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 17% above the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 114,543 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2023, 25 years later than the group's average year built (1998). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,181 senior living community buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 73.6 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 12 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 12 means the building performs better than about 12% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 12 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 63 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. Villas At Mission San Luis Rey's 61.7 kBtu/ft² across 114,543 sq ft works out to about 7.1 billion Btu (2,071 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,207,640 kWh of electricity and 29,662 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Villas At Mission San Luis Rey to report its energy use?

Villas At Mission San Luis Rey 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:30744327:2024). 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.