Technology & Infrastructure / California
Solar for New Technology Campuses
Technology campuses combine office, R&D, amenity, and parking buildings with occupiers who carry public sustainability commitments. The Energy Code requires solar and storage on most of those buildings; the occupier's goals usually call for more. Planning solar as campus infrastructure, with carports, storage, and EV charging designed together, delivers both.
Eventure's Role
Eventure works with technology campus developers and corporate real estate teams to plan and deliver solar across multi-building sites, phase by phase.
We bring solar into the project at schematic design, size the Energy Code requirement, coordinate the roof, structure, electrical rooms, and battery location with your architect and engineers, and carry the system through permitting, utility interconnection, inspection, commissioning, and closeout.
Title 24 treatment
Office, amenity, dining, and fitness buildings on a technology campus are listed occupancies under Section 140.10 and must install PV and battery storage. Laboratory and data facilities are evaluated by their occupancy mix.
Design Considerations
What is different about technology campuses.
- Campus electrical backboneShared services, central plants, and future microgrid options should be decided during site design. They determine how solar and storage interconnect across buildings.
- Carports as the biggest assetLarge employee parking fields often host more capacity than the roofs. Canopies with EV charging are standard on modern tech campuses.
- Occupier reportingMetering and monitoring designed for credible renewable energy reporting avoid retrofits when the occupier's sustainability team arrives.
- Phasing across code cyclesMulti-year buildouts span code updates. A campus standard that anticipates the 2025 code keeps phases consistent.
Keep Solar Off the Critical Path
Don't let solar be the last thing standing between your project and its Certificate of Occupancy.
On technology campuses projects, as on every California building, the Energy Code requirement, the fire authority's review of the battery, the utility's interconnection timeline, and the building's final inspection all depend on the solar scope being designed, permitted, installed, and documented in sequence. We treat it as a scheduled trade from day one.
Solar and the Certificate of Occupancy
Questions
Technology Campuses solar, answered.
Can a technology campus be designed as a microgrid?
Campus-level solar, storage, and controls can be designed with microgrid capability in mind, but the decision affects switchgear, protection, and utility agreements. It should be made during site electrical design rather than afterward.
How much EV charging should a tech campus plan for?
CALGreen sets minimum EV-capable and EV-ready requirements for new nonresidential parking, and most technology occupiers plan well beyond them. Conduit and switchgear capacity installed during construction make later expansion inexpensive.
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Discuss Your Project
Planning technology campuses in California?
Send us the drawings at any stage. We will size the Title 24 requirement, review the roof and electrical approach, and map the path to a Certificate of Occupancy that does not wait on solar.