199 San Marin Drive
NOVATO, CA
199 San Marin Drive is part of San Marin Plaza, a ~70,000 sq ft grocery-anchored neighborhood shopping center with multi-tenant retail mix including food-service and service retailers. The center operates standard daytime/evening retail hours with moderate common-area and tenant HVAC loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$187,400
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$28,030,000
By the numbers.
1.2
Years to payback
$82.1M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$54.1M
Property value gain
$620,247
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most NOVATO 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 $2.41/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 188 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 5 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 387,272 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $187,400 in year-one utility offsets, and around $28,030,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 199 San Marin Drive
NOVATO, CA 94945-1254 - APN
- 124-202-28
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 187.5 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 387,272 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $187,400
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $28,030,000
- Solar panels
- 300 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 5
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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