Wellquest Of Granite Bay

How does Wellquest Of Granite Bay 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. Wellquest Of Granite Bay's ENERGY STAR score of 77 compares with an average of 81 across the 517 that report a score; it scores higher than 29% of them and lower than 70%. Its site EUI of 72.3 kBtu/ft² is about 40% 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 4.7 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 46% above the group average of 3.2 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 117,834 sq ft, it is about 13% above the average floor area of 104,319 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2020, 22 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 77 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 77 means the building performs better than about 77% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 77 falls in band B — above median (70–84). 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. Wellquest Of Granite Bay's 72.3 kBtu/ft² across 117,834 sq ft works out to about 8.5 billion Btu (2,497 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 2,002,357 kWh of electricity and 17,998 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Wellquest Of Granite Bay to report its energy use?

Wellquest Of Granite Bay 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:21589219:2024). 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.