3500 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA
3500 De La Cruz Blvd is located in Santa Clara's established light industrial corridor near Hwy 101, where surrounding parcels are predominantly R&D/flex and warehouse buildings ranging from ~5,000–30,000 sq ft. The site is consistent with light industrial or flex use typical of this Silicon Valley industrial district.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$42,000
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$3,131,000
By the numbers.
5.9
Years to payback
$7.4M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$4.3M
Property value gain
$378,953
Tax incentives captured
Levelized cost of electricity
Like most Santa Clara 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 $0.67/kWh from SVP, reduced to $0.05/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 100 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 5 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 156,800 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
- 3500 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95054 - APN
- 10109016
- Utility
- SVP
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 100.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 156,800 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $42,000
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $3,131,000
- Solar panels
-
200 ×
Canadian 450 - Bifacial
(180 carport · 20 rooftop) - SolarPort structures
- 5
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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