Alamosa Solar Generating Plant in Colorado

Alamosa Solar Generating Plant, a 30 megawatt concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power plant near Alamosa owned by Cogentrix Energy. it was called the largest CPV facility in the world when it came operational in May 2012. The 500 dual-axis CPV Amonix 7700 tracker assemblies cover a 225-acre plot. Each tracker is 70 feet (21 meters) wide and 50 feet (15 meters) tall. Each has 7,560 Fresnel lenses that concentrate sunlight by a multiple of 500 onto multijunction gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells.

Unique identifier: GP04NQ5

Type: Image

Shoot date: 07/06/2013

Locations: Colorado, North America, United States of America

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Robert Meyers

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Solar Power Stations in Colorado

Documentation of solar power stations in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. This high desert intermontane region contains some of the largest solar power stations in the United States. Xcel, Greater Sandhill project, Mosca, Colorado, completed Dec. 2010. 50,000 pv modules on 200 acres generates 19 MWac on a ground-mount tracker system using SunPower T20 Tracker Sunpower high-efficiency PV Modules. The Alamosa Solar Generating Plant, a 30 megawatt concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power plant in Alamosa is owned by Cogentrix Energy. It is made up of 500 dual-axis CPV Amonix 7700 tracker assemblies on a 225-acre plot. Each tracker is 70 feet (21 meters) wide and 50 feet (15 meters) tall. Each has 7,560 Fresnel lenses that concentrate sunlight by a multiple of 500 onto multijunction gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells.

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