1040 W BROADWAY
San Diego, CA
1040 W Broadway is located in downtown San Diego's W Broadway commercial corridor, home to the Holland Residential 'West' office development offering ~40,000 sq ft floor plates across multiple stories of Class A multi-tenant office space. The building serves professional services tenants with standard HVAC and lighting loads typical of dense office uses.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$49,600
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$3,700,000
By the numbers.
0.6
Years to payback
$8.8M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$5.1M
Property value gain
$112,130
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most San Diego 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 $0.01/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 56.3 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 106,237 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $49,600 in year-one utility offsets, and around $3,700,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 1040 W BROADWAY
San Diego, CA 92101 - APN
- 7600125800
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 56.3 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 106,237 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $49,600
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $3,700,000
- Solar panels
- 90 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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