Planned
515 Aldo Ave
Santa Clara, CA
515 Aldo Ave is a ~25,000 sq ft Class C industrial building constructed in 1971, situated in Santa Clara's light-industrial corridor near De La Cruz Blvd. The property has been used for manufacturing and processing operations, indicating notable electrical and mechanical energy loads.
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
Levelized cost of energy
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 with SolarPorts.
SolarPorts evaluated their power usage 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 is designed to produce 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
- 1.600
- 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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