2088 N 1ST ST
SAN JOSE, CA
2088 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95131 is the Hampton Inn & Suites San Jose Airport, a 144-room full-service hotel built in 2020 and approximately 96,879 sq ft. Operating 24/7 near SJC Airport, it carries continuous HVAC, lighting, pool, and EV charging loads typical of airport hospitality properties.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$132,300
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$9,866,000
By the numbers.
1.8
Years to payback
$23.4M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$13.5M
Property value gain
$593,462
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most SAN JOSE 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 $0.03/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 284,431 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $132,300 in year-one utility offsets, and around $9,866,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 2088 N 1ST ST
SAN JOSE, CA 95131-2001 - APN
- 23717174
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 150.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 284,431 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $132,300
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $9,866,000
- Solar panels
- 240 × Q.TRON XL-G2.3/BFG
- SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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