W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca

How does W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca compare with other retail store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 1,742 retail store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca's ENERGY STAR score of 22 compares with an average of 76 across the 1,305 that report a score; it scores higher than 10% of them and lower than 90%. Its site EUI of 63.6 kBtu/ft² is about 20% above the average of 53.2 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 4.6 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 39% above the group average of 3.3 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 119,289 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 124,053 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2004, 13 years later than the group's average year built (1991). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 3,025 retail store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 73 and a site EUI of 57.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 22 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 22 means the building performs better than about 22% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 22 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 53 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. W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca's 63.6 kBtu/ft² across 119,289 sq ft works out to about 7.6 billion Btu (2,223 MWh-equivalent) in 2018. The disclosure also reports 2,268,697 kWh of electricity and 474 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca to report its energy use?

W001900-Aliso Viejo Ca 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:4816363:2018). 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.