3303 SAN FELIPE RD
SAN JOSE, CA
3303 San Felipe Rd, San Jose, CA 95135 is a gas station and convenience store (Circle K/Valero) operating 24 hours daily. The site includes a fuel canopy, underground fuel storage, and an attached auto service center, with continuous high-energy fuel dispensing and lighting loads.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$42,000
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$3,131,000
By the numbers.
2.4
Years to payback
$7.4M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$4.3M
Property value gain
$233,381
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 $0.04/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 57.2 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 2 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 89,690 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $42,000 in year-one utility offsets, and around $3,131,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 3303 SAN FELIPE RD
SAN JOSE, CA 95135-2000 - APN
- 67620093
- Utility
- PG&E
- Seismic rating
- 1.46
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 57.2 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 89,690 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $42,000
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $3,131,000
- Solar panels
-
104 ×
Solar 4 America 550
(80 carport · 24 rooftop) - SolarPort structures
- 2
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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