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FELDNER FREDRIC R TRUSTEE & ET AL
LOS ALTOS, CA

164 Main St, Los Altos, CA is a multi-tenant mixed-use commercial building in downtown Los Altos hosting at least 11 tenants across ground-floor retail (including a women's clothing boutique) and upper-floor professional offices such as real estate, medical, and design services.

System layout — SolarPort carports, rooftop arrays and battery placements at LOS ALTOS
System layout — solar carports, rooftop arrays and batteries

Projected savings.

Year 1

$442,700

Lifetime (~30 yr)

$33,015,000

By the numbers.

1.3

Years to payback

$78.3M

Total benefits (lifetime)

$45.3M

Property value gain

$1,587,295

Tax incentives captured

Levelized cost of electricity

$0.02 / kWh · SolarPorts
vs.
$1.16 / kWh · Pacific Gas & Electric

Like most LOS ALTOS businesses, the site was paying high Peak rates of roughly $1.16 per kilowatt-hour and large Demand charges — the kind of bill structure that punishes daytime energy use and penalises the very hours commercial properties consume the most power.

SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 423 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 12 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.

The system now produces roughly 950,041 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $442,700 in year-one utility offsets, and around $33,015,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.

System spec

System design

Site
164 MAIN ST
LOS ALTOS, CA 94022-2905
APN
16738022
Utility
Pacific Gas & Electric
Seismic rating
1.71
Irradiance
2
System size
422.6 kW DC
Estimated production
950,041 AC kWh / year
Year-1 utility offset
$442,700
Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
$33,015,000
Solar panels
709 × Q.PEAK DUO XL-G11S3/BFG 595
(658 carport · 51 rooftop)
SolarPort structures
12
Wire loss
2.0%

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