Tag: sunpower

  • SunPower dedicates 15-MW PV system at Nellis Air Force Base

    Some solar companies are still able to find work in Nevada. SunPower Corp. joined NV Energy, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Miranda Ballentine and 99th Air Base Wing Commander Colonel Richard Boutwell in dedicating a new 15-MW SunPower solar power system that is now operatingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes

    About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four low-income families in Austin’s Blackland Neighborhood. Working with national solar nonprofit GRID Alternatives over two days, the volunteers installed four rooftop solar systems totaling 13 kW of generating capacity. The systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • On the Scene: NEXTracker combines solar expertise, product solutions

    Solar power is starting to move into the mainstream, but this current success comes after decades of slow adoption and product evolution — an evolution with which the team at NEXTracker is intimately familiar. NEXTracker might seem like one of the new kids that’s popped up on the solar blockRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower gets 50-MW Colorado solar plant up and running

    Xcel Energy and SunPower Corp. announced the commercial operation of the 50-MW Hooper solar photovoltaic power plant in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Xcel Energy is purchasing the power generated by the plant at cost-competitive rates under a power purchase agreement with SunPower. The utility estimates that the plant is generatingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • ITC extension: Solar industry reacts (celebrates)

    It is Monday, and the solar industry is nursing a hangover after a weekend spent celebrating the extension of the Investment Tax Credits (ITC). Funny how quickly the mood changed regarding this possibility. Only a month ago we started asking readers for their wild predictions for 2016, and not manyRead More — Solar Builder magazine