BLATT GERALD R
GILROY, CA
A concrete contractor (Star Concrete / ready-mix concrete operations) occupies this approximately 14,925 sq ft industrial building on Gilroy's Automall Parkway corridor. The site is classified as heavy industrial use with significant process and equipment energy loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$123,400
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$9,202,000
By the numbers.
2.0
Years to payback
$21.8M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$12.6M
Property value gain
$583,237
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most GILROY 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 169 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 265,306 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $123,400 in year-one utility offsets, and around $9,202,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 6475 AUTOMALL PKWY
GILROY, CA 95020-7132 - APN
- 84115070
- Utility
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 169.2 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 265,306 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $123,400
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $9,202,000
- Solar panels
- 360 × SUNPOWER X21-470-COM
- SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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