2910 BROADWAY
OAKLAND, CA
2910 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611 is a commercial retail building occupied by a Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, a discount supermarket operating ~15,000–20,000 sq ft. The grocery use drives high continuous energy loads from refrigeration, lighting, and HVAC systems seven days a week.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$143,900
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$21,516,000
By the numbers.
2.6
Years to payback
$63.0M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$41.5M
Property value gain
$603,132
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most OAKLAND 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 $0.04/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 150 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 298,014 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $143,900 in year-one utility offsets, and around $21,516,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 2910 BROADWAY
OAKLAND, CA 94611 - APN
- 9-702-1-1
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 150.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 298,014 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $143,900
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $21,516,000
- Solar panels
- 240 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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