1111 Lockheed Martin Way
1111 Lockheed Martin Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 is a large ~700,000 sq ft multi-building aerospace defense campus (Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Plant One) used for aerospace manufacturing, R&D, and advanced defense systems engineering. The site operates high-intensity industrial and technical loads typical of defense manufacturing and res...
Projected savings.
Year 1
$131,000
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$9,772,000
By the numbers.
2.3
Years to payback
$23.2M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$13.4M
Property value gain
$691,603
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
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 $1.15/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 180 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 6 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 282,240 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $131,000 in year-one utility offsets, and around $9,772,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 1111 Lockheed Martin Way
CA - Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 180.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 282,240 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $131,000
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $9,772,000
- Solar panels
- 360 × Trina 480 BiFacial
- SolarPort structures
- 6
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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