4009 MARCONI AVE
SACRAMENTO, CA
4009 Marconi Ave is Amber Grove Apartments, a multi-family residential complex in Sacramento's Arden-Arcade neighborhood offering 1- and 2-bedroom units ranging from ~721–976 sq ft per unit. Energy loads are typical of a residential community with common-area lighting, pool equipment, and HVAC across multiple dwelling units.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$17,800
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$1,328,000
By the numbers.
7.9
Years to payback
$3.1M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$1.8M
Property value gain
$298,818
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most SACRAMENTO 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 $0.52/kWh from SMUD, reduced to $0.05/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 45.0 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 3 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 84,672 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $17,800 in year-one utility offsets, and around $1,328,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 4009 MARCONI AVE
SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-3901 - APN
- 26900700250000
- Utility
- SMUD
- Seismic rating
- 0.46
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 45.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 84,672 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $17,800
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $1,328,000
- Solar panels
- 90 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
- SolarPort structures
- 3
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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