VALSAF HOLDINGS
Vallejo, CA
This is a Smart & Final Extra warehouse-style grocery store operating in an approximately 16,560 sq ft retail building constructed in 1974. The store carries fresh produce, meat, dairy, deli, and bulk goods, indicating significant refrigeration and cold storage energy loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$263,300
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$19,638,000
By the numbers.
2.0
Years to payback
$46.6M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$26.9M
Property value gain
$1,261,850
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most Vallejo 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 300 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 10 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 564,480 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $263,300 in year-one utility offsets, and around $19,638,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 3901 Sonoma Boulevard, Vallejo, CA, USA
Vallejo, CA 94590 - APN
- 0051060140
- Utility
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Seismic rating
- 1
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 300.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 564,480 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $263,300
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $19,638,000
- Solar panels
- 600 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
- SolarPort structures
- 10
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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