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1755 Embarcadero

1755 Embarcadero, Oakland, CA 94606 is the Executive Inn & Suites, a waterfront hotel with 224 guest rooms/suites built in 1991 and renovated in 2018. The property includes a full-service conference center, onsite restaurant/lounge, outdoor pool, and 24-hour operations typical of high-baseline hotel energy loads.

Aerial view of the  SolarPorts installation
1755 Embarcadero
System layout — solar carports at
System layout — solar carports
1755 Embarcadero

Projected savings.

Year 1

$264,600

Lifetime (~30 yr)

$19,733,000

By the numbers.

1.4

Years to payback

$46.8M

Total benefits (lifetime)

$27.0M

Property value gain

$981,122

Tax incentives captured

Levelized cost of energy

$0.02 / kWh · SolarPorts
vs.
$1.16 / kWh · PG&E

Like most California 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 with SolarPorts.

SolarPorts evaluated their power usage and proposed a right-sized 300 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.

The system is designed to produce roughly 565,951 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $264,600 in year-one utility offsets, and around $19,733,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.

System spec

System design

Site
1755 Embarcadero
CA
Utility
PG&E
Seismic rating
1.2
Irradiance
2
System size
300.0 kW DC
Estimated production
565,951 AC kWh / year
Year-1 utility offset
$264,600
Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
$19,733,000
Solar panels
480 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
SolarPort structures
4
Wire loss
2.0%

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