Alamosa Photovoltaic Plant.
An 82-acre tract in south central Colorado, near the New Mexico border, is the site for one of the largest photovoltaic power plants in the United States. The Alamosa Photovoltaic Plant, which went on-line in December 2007, and generates about 8.2 megawatts of power using Suntech solar modules. SunEdison built, owns and will maintain the Alamosa plant and Xcel Energy will purchase the power generated by the plant.
NREL rates the San Luis Valley, where the plant is located, as having the best available resource for solar power conditions in Colorado.
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- NREL researcher, Tom Stoffel aligns a pyrheliometer at sunrise at the SunEdison photovoltaic (PV) power plant. The instrument measures direct
beam solar radiation.
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- A temporary NREL meteorological and solar measurement station at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.
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- Seasonally adjusted fixed-axis photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado
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- Seasonally adjusted fixed-axis photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.
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- Seasonally adjusted fixed-axis photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.
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- A plane-of-array pyranometer mounted on one-axis tracking photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa,
Colorado.
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- NREL engineer Steve Wilcox cleans frost from from a small photovoltaic panel powering a temporary solar and meteorological station at the
SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.
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- A Pyranometer at dawn at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado. The instrument measures global solar radiation from the sky.
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- A view of one-axis tracking photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.
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- 1. A view of two-axis tracking photovoltaic panels at the SunEdison photovoltaic power plant near Alamosa, Colorado.