Los Angeles, CA
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned leader in healthcare, biomedical research, and medical education. Located in the heart of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, the hospital is known for its pursuit of clinical excellence and pioneering medical innovation. In February 2013, Cedars-Sinai demonstrated this same forward-thinking leadership in sustainability by partnering with Stellar Solar Commercial to integrate a sophisticated 285 kWp solar car-port system into its landmark LEED Platinum expansion.
Designing a solar solution for one of the nation’s busiest and most prominent medical centers requires an elite level of engineering precision and aesthetic sensitivity. As part of a larger push toward achieving LEED Platinum certification—the highest standard of green building leadership—Stellar Solar Commercial was selected to engineer a high-yield system atop the hospital’s primary parking garage.
The technical architecture of the Cedars-Sinai installation features:
-1,100 Suntech 240-Watt Modules: This massive array of eleven hundred panels was meticulously integrated into custom-built parking canopies across multiple locations. These high-density modules are engineered to perform consistently under the Southern California sun, turning a critical infrastructure component into a source of clean energy.
-Distributed Inverter Configuration: To manage the substantial 285kW power conversion capacity with maximum reliability, the system utilizes a robust configuration of 30 SMA Sunnyboy inverters. This distributed approach ensures the power quality required for a sensitive medical environment and provides significant system redundancy.
-Integrated Parking Shade: Beyond energy generation, the striking car-port design provides essential shaded parking for patients, visitors, and staff, protecting vehicles from the intense Los Angeles heat.
-Strategic Collaboration: Stellar Solar Commercial worked in direct collaboration with Graycore Construction, the general contractor for this extensive and complex LEED Platinum campus expansion.
For a top-tier medical non-profit, electricity is a significant and traditionally volatile operational expense. By generating its own power on-site since February 2013, Cedars-Sinai has effectively “locked in” its energy costs for decades. In the 2026 energy landscape, where utility rates for Los Angeles-area medical facilities have reached historic highs, the foresight of this installation provides a powerful financial shield.
Every kilowatt-hour produced by the Suntech array is a kilowatt-hour that does not have to be purchased from the utility. This creates a permanent, sustainable stream of capital savings that can be redirected toward the hospital’s core mission, supporting:
-Advanced Medical Technology and Research: Investing in the latest diagnostic tools, surgical robotics, and life-saving clinical trials.
-Patient Care and Comfort: Enhancing the facilities and resources dedicated to patient recovery and experience.
-Campus Resiliency: Protecting the facility against future utility inflation for the next twenty years.
Since 1998, Stellar Solar Commercial has been the preferred partner for California’s leading medical centers and healthcare networks. We understand that in healthcare, energy reliability is a matter of professional integrity. Our 28-year history is built on a foundation of technical expertise and a “patient-first” approach to construction that minimizes disruption to clinic schedules and patient privacy.
Our in-house team handles the entire lifecycle of these multi-hundred-kW+ projects—from the specialized structural engineering required for parking garage canopies to navigating complex utility interconnection and state-specific incentive programs for healthcare. We specialize in working within sensitive environments where maintaining a quiet, professional atmosphere is the top priority during the installation phase.
As we move through 2026, the strategy for premier medical centers has evolved to include Solar + Battery Storage. For organizations like Cedars-Sinai, adding a utility-scale battery system provides an essential layer of resilience, ensuring that critical data centers, communication hubs, and life-support equipment remain fully operational even during regional power outages.
Stellar Solar Commercial continues to lead this energy revolution, helping California’s healthcare leaders build a resilient, low-cost energy future. We turn critical medical infrastructure into powerful tools for sustainability and clinical success.
If your medical center, research lab, or healthcare facility is ready to follow the lead of Cedars-Sinai and reclaim control over your energy future, contact Stellar Solar Commercial today at 866.787.6527. We provide comprehensive, free site evaluations to help your facility thrive.