1190 S BASCOM AVE
SAN JOSE, CA
1190 S Bascom Ave is a ~31,384 sq ft multi-tenant office building (built 1975) in San Jose's Willow Glen corridor, classified as offices/clinics. The building hosts a mix of professional services tenants including property management, mortgage brokerage, and health/wellness clinics, with standard HVAC and daytime occupancy loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$189,500
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$14,136,000
By the numbers.
2.0
Years to payback
$33.5M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$19.4M
Property value gain
$906,743
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 216 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 6 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.
The system now produces roughly 406,426 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $189,500 in year-one utility offsets, and around $14,136,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 1190 S BASCOM AVE
SAN JOSE, CA 95128-3545 - APN
- 28228020
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 216.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 406,426 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $189,500
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $14,136,000
- Solar panels
- 360 × TSM-NEG19RC.20
- SolarPort structures
- 6
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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