5900 SHELLMOUND ST
EMERYVILLE, CA
5900 Shellmound St is the Avalon Public Market, a ~167-unit multi-family residential apartment building developed by AvalonBay Communities as part of the Emeryville Public Market Redevelopment. The mid-rise complex serves a high-density residential population with typical apartment energy loads including HVAC, in-unit laundry, and common-area.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$143,700
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$10,720,000
By the numbers.
1.2
Years to payback
$25.4M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$14.7M
Property value gain
$495,858
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most EMERYVILLE 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 150 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 308,201 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $143,700 in year-one utility offsets, and around $10,720,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 5900 SHELLMOUND ST
EMERYVILLE, CA 94608 - APN
- 49-1556-19
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 150.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 308,201 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $143,700
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $10,720,000
- Solar panels
- 240 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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