Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826

How does Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826 compare with other supermarket/grocery store buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 975 supermarket/grocery store buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826's ENERGY STAR score of 88 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 80% of them and lower than 16%. Its site EUI of 137.4 kBtu/ft² is about 16% below the average of 164.4 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 13.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 30% above the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 53,904 sq ft, it is about 30% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2014, 18 years later than the group's average year built (1996). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,646 supermarket/grocery store buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 71 and a site EUI of 176.1 kBtu/ft².

How has Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 7 California disclosures for Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826, covering report years 2018–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 86 in 2018 to 88 in 2024 (+2 points); its best year on file was 2022, at 90. Site EUI moved from 142.0 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 137.4 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 3% decrease. Reported emissions went from 996 tCO₂e to 726 tCO₂e over the same span (down 27%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 88 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 88 means the building performs better than about 88% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 88 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. Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826's 137.4 kBtu/ft² across 53,904 sq ft works out to about 7.4 billion Btu (2,171 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 1,897,361 kWh of electricity and 10,475 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826 to report its energy use?

Walmart Neighborhood Market #2826 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:6263983:2024). 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.