SunPower Corp has started commercial operations at the 50MW Hooper solar power plant in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
SunPower designed and constructed the plant, which covers 320 acres and includes a SunPower Oasis power plant system.
It is also operating and maintaining the project, as well as monitoring power production from the company’s remote operations control center in Austin, Texas.
More than 150 jobs were created at the project site during peak construction.
Xcel Energy is purchasing the electricity generated by the plant under a power purchase agreement with SunPower.
Xcel Energy president of public service of Colorado David Eves said: “We are adding large scale solar that competes with and surpasses other forms of generation alternatives, in terms of price, over the life of the project.”
Image: SunPower’s Phoenix Lake Pleasant PV plant (SunPower)
