8425 FIRESTONE BLVD
DOWNEY, CA
8425 Firestone Blvd is the Embassy Suites by Hilton Los Angeles Downey, an 8-story full-service hotel with 220 two-room suites and over 6,000 sq ft of meeting/banquet space. The property operates 24/7 with high energy loads from an indoor pool, fitness center, full-service restaurant, and HVAC across all guest floors.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$108,100
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$8,064,000
By the numbers.
1.2
Years to payback
$19.1M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$11.1M
Property value gain
$372,097
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most DOWNEY businesses, the site was paying high Peak rates and large Demand charges — the kind of bill structure that punishes daytime energy use and penalizes the very hours commercial properties consume the most power. The result was a Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE) of $1.16/kWh from PG&E, reduced to $0.02/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 113 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 3 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 232,121 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $108,100 in year-one utility offsets, and around $8,064,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 8425 FIRESTONE BLVD
DOWNEY, CA 90241-3843 - APN
- 6254-021-031
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 112.5 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 232,121 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $108,100
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $8,064,000
- Solar panels
- 180 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 3
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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