515 Aldo Ave
Santa Clara, CA
515 Aldo Ave is a ~25,000 sq ft Class C industrial building built in 1971, located in Santa Clara's industrial corridor near De La Cruz Blvd. The property has been used for manufacturing and processing operations, implying sustained daytime electrical loads typical of light industrial tenants.
Projected savings.
Year 1
$44,500
Lifetime (~30 yr)
$3,320,000
By the numbers.
4.9
Years to payback
$7.9M
Total benefits (lifetime)
$4.6M
Property value gain
$349,081
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 $0.66/kWh from SVP, reduced to $0.04/kWh from SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their interval power usage (every 15 minutes) and proposed a right-sized 89.0 kW solar system for on-site generation delivered as 4 SolarPort carport structures above the parking lot and a rooftop array on the building.
The system now produces roughly 167,463 AC kWh of clean energy each year, an estimated $44,500 in year-one utility offsets, and around $3,320,000 in net lifetime savings — turning a recurring operating-cost into a long-term, predictable energy hedge.
System spec
System design
- Site
- 515 Aldo Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95054 - APN
- 10109030
- Utility
- SVP
- Seismic rating
- 1.2
- Irradiance
- 2
- System size
- 89.0 kW DC
- Estimated production
- 167,463 AC kWh / year
- Year-1 utility offset
- $44,500
- Lifetime savings (~30 yr)
- $3,320,000
- Solar panels
-
178 ×
TSM-DEG18MC.20(II)
(150 carport · 28 rooftop) - SolarPort structures
- 4
- Wire loss
- 2.0%
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