1480 FALCON DR
MILPITAS, CA
1480 Falcon Dr is the Courtyard by Marriott Milpitas Silicon Valley, a four-story, 155-room hotel with an on-site restaurant, outdoor pool, fitness center, and ~1,023 sq ft of meeting/event space. The property operates 24/7 with continuous HVAC, lighting, laundry, and food-service energy loads typical of a full-service hotel.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$262,000
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$19,543,000
By the numbers.
1.4
Years to payback
$46.3M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$26.8M
Property value gain
$980,510
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most MILPITAS 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 300 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 563,040 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $262,000 in year-one utility offsets, and around $19,543,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 1480 FALCON DR
MILPITAS, CA 95035-8047 - APN
- 08624056
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 300.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 563,040 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $262,000
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $19,543,000
- Solar panels
- 480 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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