PIX number

15536

Title:

NREL researcher, Tom Stoffel aligns a pyrheliometer at sunrise at the SunEdison photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Alamosa Colorado. The instrument measures direct beam solar radiation.

Caption

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.

Credit:

Wilcox, Steve

Publications:



Date:

8/28/2007

Index Date:

4/11/2008

DOE_office:

Notes:

High resolution digital file, ~ 29MB

Subject:

solar - photovoltaics

Descriptors:

array, distributed energy resources, equipment and pyrheliometer, electricity and output and megawatt, grid connected, instrument and measurement, meteorological testing, people and scientist, PV panels, staff, sunrise

Person/Place:

Alamosa, Colorado; Stoffel, Tom

Release Level

Full/Internet

DOE Information:

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