E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus

How does E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus compare with other K-12 school buildings in Washington, DC?

The latest disclosures cover 333 K-12 school buildings in Washington, DC, out of 6,870 buildings citywide. E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus's ENERGY STAR score of 30 compares with an average of 44 across the 304 that report a score; it scores higher than 35% of them and lower than 64%. Its site EUI of 84.2 kBtu/ft² is about 31% above the average of 64.1 kBtu/ft² — it uses more energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 9.4 kgCO₂e/ft² is about twice the group average of 4.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 45,484 sq ft, it is about 57% below the average floor area of 105,946 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 2008, 59 years later than the group's average year built (1949). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 30 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 30 means the building performs better than about 30% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 30 falls in band D — lowest band (1–54). It sits 45 points below 75, the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification. In Washington, DC, 47% 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. E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus's 84.2 kBtu/ft² across 45,484 sq ft works out to about 3.8 billion Btu (1,122 MWh-equivalent) in 2013. Its source EUI of 228.2 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 891,370 kWh of electricity, 7,895 therms of natural gas and 668 thousand gallons of water for the year.

Which law requires E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus to report its energy use?

E.L. Haynes Public Charter School - Georgia Avenue Campus reports under the Clean and Affordable Energy Act / BEPS, the legal basis of Washington, DC's Building Energy Benchmarking program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2013 disclosure (source record dc:PM4104913:2013). DC's Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS) require buildings below the performance standard to improve over compliance cycles (the first ends December 31, 2026; later cycles run five years), with penalties for buildings that fail to meet their pathway.