HICKORY ST
NEWARK, CA
37137 Hickory St is a ~252,600 sq ft Class A industrial warehouse built in 1996, serving as the corporate headquarters and distribution center for WORLDPAC, a national automotive parts importer and distributor. The facility operates distribution and logistics functions with high daytime loading dock activity and warehouse energy loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$78,900
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$5,882,000
By the numbers.
1.9
Years to payback
$13.9M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$8.1M
Property value gain
$364,503
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most NEWARK 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 $0.03/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 90.0 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 3 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 169,344 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $78,900 in year-one utility offsets, and around $5,882,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- HICKORY ST
NEWARK, CA 94560 - APN
- 537-555-25
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 90.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 169,344 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $78,900
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $5,882,000
- Solar panels
- 180 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
- SolarPort structures
- 3
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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