2720 ABORN RD
SAN JOSE, CA
2720 Aborn Rd is part of Evergreen Valley Center, a ~40,000 sq ft two-building strip retail/office complex built in 1981 with 22 commercial spaces. The property hosts ground-floor retail and service tenants with individual HVAC controls and high daytime customer traffic.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$279,900
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$24,711,000
By the numbers.
1.3
Years to payback
$61.9M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$37.2M
Property value gain
$967,606
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 $1.39/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 278 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 12 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 594,356 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $279,900 in year-one utility offsets, and around $24,711,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 2720 ABORN RD
SAN JOSE, CA 95121-1204 - APN
- 67620088
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.45
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 278.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 594,356 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $279,900
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $24,711,000
- Solar panels
-
556 ×
TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
(480 carport · 76 rooftop) - SolarPort structures
- 12
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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