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-basedd (NYSE: XEL) on the 17-megawatt power facility, to be builty in Alamosa County by the endof 2010. That area of Coloradop is high altitude desert and gets a lotof sunshine, makinf it ideal for solar projects. The San Luis Valley around Alamosa includes Great Sand DunesNational Park, where prevailinfg winds blow sand up against the Sangre De Crist o Mountains. Visitors walking in the park will find that stronfg sunshine makes the sand too hot for bare feetby midday. No pric was given by the companies. Xcel owns the utility , led by CEO Tim It already has one plang inthe area, an 8.
2-megawatt solarr project that cost about $60 million. That plant’sz run by of Beltsville, Md. Special SunPower technology will increase the efficienchy of this project by tilting panelds to trackthe sun. SunPower, whic has a major office in Richmond’s Ford Point is also building a big power plantin Florida, due to be finishecd by the end of this That plant, at 25 megawatts, will be larger than this one in Right now, the biggest plant of this type is a 12-megawatrt one at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevadq — which SunPower also built.
The company has a contracgt fora 210-megawatt plant for local utilityu