Sunday, January 13, 2013

SunPower Corp. and Xcel to build plant in Colorado - San Francisco Business Times:

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San Jose-based SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA) will work with Minneapolis-based XEL) on the 17-megawatt power facility, to be built in Alamosas County by the endof 2010. That area of Colorad o is high altitude desert and gets a lot of making it ideal forsolart projects. The San Luis Valley around Alamoswa includes Great Sand DunesNational Park, where prevailinhg winds blow sand up against the Sangrse De Cristo Mountains. Visitors walking in the park will find that stronvg sunshine makes the sand too hot for bare feet by No price was given bythe companies. Xcel owns the utilityy , led by CEO Tim Taylor. It alreadt has one plant in the area, an 8.
2-megawatg solar project that costabout $60 That plant’s run by of Beltsville, Md. Speciall SunPower technology will increase the efficiencyh of this project by tilting panels to trackthe sun. which has a major office in Richmond’s Ford Point is also building a big power plant in due to be finished by the end of this That plant, at 25 megawatts, will be largee than this one in Right now, the biggest plant of this type is a 12-megawatr one at Nellis Air Forcwe Base in Nevada — whicnh SunPower also built.
The company has a contractt fora 210-megawatt plant for local utility

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