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1701 LUNDY AVE
SAN JOSE, CA

1701 Lundy Ave is Pacific Rim Plaza II, a ~44,000 sq ft multi-tenant retail strip center built in 1994 in San Jose's North Valley neighborhood. The property hosts food-and-beverage and service retail tenants, with typical daytime and evening commercial energy loads across 5 interior retail spaces.

System layout — solar carports at SAN JOSE
System layout — solar carports

Projected savings.

Year 1

$78,900

Lifetime (~30 yr)

$5,882,000

By the numbers.

2.4

Years to payback

$13.9M

Total benefits (lifetime)

$8.1M

Property value gain

$428,375

Tax incentives captured

Levelized cost of electricity

$0.03 / kWh · SolarPorts
vs.
$1.16 / kWh · PG&E

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 90.0 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 3 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot.

The system now produces roughly 169,344 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $78,900 in year-one utility offsets, and around $5,882,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.

System spec

System design

Site
1701 LUNDY AVE
SAN JOSE, CA 95131-1832
APN
24436008
Utility
PG&E
Seismic rating
1.38
Irradiance
2
System size
90.0 kW DC
Estimated production
169,344 AC kWh / year
Year-1 utility offset
$78,900
Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
$5,882,000
Solar panels
180 × TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
SolarPort structures
3
Wire loss
2.0%

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