Walmart Neighborhood Market #6530 (Closed 11/1/19)

How does Walmart Neighborhood Market #6530 (Closed 11/1/19) 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 #6530 (Closed 11/1/19)'s ENERGY STAR score of 94 compares with an average of 74 across the 866 that report a score; it scores higher than 94% of them and lower than 5%. Its site EUI of 139.2 kBtu/ft² is about 15% 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 9.0 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 14% below the group average of 10.4 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 52,303 sq ft, it is about 32% below the average floor area of 76,560 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2015, 19 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 #6530 (Closed 11/1/19)'s energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 2 California disclosures for Walmart Neighborhood Market #6530 (Closed 11/1/19), covering report years 2018–2019. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 89 in 2018 to 94 in 2019 (+5 points). Site EUI moved from 159.1 kBtu/ft² (2018) to 139.2 kBtu/ft² (2019), a 13% decrease. Reported emissions went from 535 tCO₂e to 469 tCO₂e over the same span (down 12%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 94 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 94 means the building performs better than about 94% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 94 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 #6530 (Closed 11/1/19)'s 139.2 kBtu/ft² across 52,303 sq ft works out to about 7.3 billion Btu (2,134 MWh-equivalent) in 2019. The disclosure also reports 1,390,167 kWh of electricity and 25,307 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Walmart Neighborhood Market #6530 (Closed 11/1/19) to report its energy use?

Walmart Neighborhood Market #6530 (Closed 11/1/19) 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 2019 disclosure (source record california:6265635:2019). 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.