856 Camino Medio, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
SAN JOSE, CA
856 Camino Medio, Santa Barbara, CA 93110 is an approximately 3,068 sq ft single-family residential home in the Hope Ranch area of Santa Barbara County. No commercial or energy-intensive operations are present; the property is owner-occupied residential use.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$14,000
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$1,044,000
By the numbers.
1.0
Years to payback
$2.5M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$1.4M
Property value gain
$30,841
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 $1.23/kWh from SCE, reduced to $0.02/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 15.0 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 28,224 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $14,000 in year-one utility offsets, and around $1,044,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 856 Camino Medio, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
SAN JOSE, CA 95121-1204 - APN
- 67620088
- Utility
- SCE
- Seismic rating
- 1.44
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 15.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 28,224 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $14,000
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $1,044,000
- Solar panels
- 30 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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