17682 Mitchell N
17682 Mitchell N, Irvine, CA 92614 is a ~15,928 sq ft, two-story Class B garden-style office building in the Irvine Business Complex, built in 1978. It hosts multiple professional-services tenants including employment agencies, real estate firms, and therapy practices, with standard daytime HVAC and lighting loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$61,100
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$4,554,000
By the numbers.
1.5
Years to payback
$10.8M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$6.2M
Property value gain
$232,824
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 $1.17/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 68.8 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 1 SolarPort carport structure above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 129,697 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $61,100 in year-one utility offsets, and around $4,554,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 17682 Mitchell N
CA - Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 68.8 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 129,697 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $61,100
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $4,554,000
- Solar panels
-
110 ×
Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
(80 carport · 30 rooftop) - SolarPort structures
- 1
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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