5883 RUE FERRARI
SAN JOSE, CA
5883 Rue Ferrari is a ~95,860 sq ft multi-tenant flex/industrial building in San Jose's Edenvale Business Park, built in 1986 on 6.14 acres. The property hosts R&D, lab, and office tenants with heavy power supply, advanced HVAC, and high-ceiling industrial suites — indicating significant and varied energy loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$178,100
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$13,282,000
By the numbers.
1.6
Years to payback
$31.5M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$18.2M
Property value gain
$721,929
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of energy
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 $0.02/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 180 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 5 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 381,024 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $178,100 in year-one utility offsets, and around $13,282,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 5883 RUE FERRARI
SAN JOSE, CA 95138-1857 - APN
- 67805050
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.34
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 180.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 381,024 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $178,100
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $13,282,000
- Solar panels
- 300 × TSM-NEG19RC.20
- SolarPort structures
- 5
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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