1980 Airway Drive,
Hollister, CA
1980 Airway Drive sits within the Hollister Airpark Business Center, a 100-acre master-planned development zoned Industrial Business Park/Airport Support adjacent to Hollister Municipal Airport. Based on surrounding parcels, the property is consistent with light industrial or flex uses typical of the airpark, with daytime operational loads and w...
Projected savings.
Year 1
$868,800
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$64,796,000
By the numbers.
2.9
Years to payback
$153.6M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$88.8M
Property value gain
$3,959,394
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most Hollister 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 $0.04/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 990 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 33 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 1,862,784 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $868,800 in year-one utility offsets, and around $64,796,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 1980 Airway Drive,
Hollister, CA 95023 - Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 990.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 1,862,784 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $868,800
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $64,796,000
- Solar panels
- 1,980 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
- SolarPort structures
- 33
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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