Kern County

Commercial solar in Delano

Table grape country. Packing houses, cold storage and a demand charge set by one week of intake every summer.

Dominant load: Refrigeration, 24 hours
Peak event: Harvest intake pull-down
Staging yard: On site in Delano

Local conditions

What building here is actually like

Delano's commercial load is dominated by refrigeration. Packing sheds and cold stores run compressors continuously and then double their duty for a few weeks at intake, which is where the year's demand charge is decided.

That pattern makes Delano the clearest storage case in our territory. An array sized to the year-round refrigeration base, plus a battery sized in kW to shave the pull-down peak, consistently outperforms a larger array on its own.

The building stock helps. Cold stores have big, flat, uncluttered roofs with few penetrations, which makes for efficient racking runs and fast installation between packing seasons.

Table grape packingCold storageAgricultural servicesTrucking and transload

Where we work locally

Districts and corridors

Woollomes Avenue industrial strip
Cecil Avenue packing corridor
Highway 99 transload yards

Built here

Local case files

Kern Ridge Packing842 kW DC · Cold storage and packingA grape packing and cold storage operation whose annual demand charge was being set by a single week of intake in late July. The array covers the daytime refrigeration load; the battery exists purely to hold the monthly peak down during pull-down.Open case file

Elsewhere in the territory

Other areas

Bring us the bill before you bring us the roof

Every project starts with twelve months of interval data and a load shape. The array comes after that, sized to what you actually use.

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