In case you missed the news, the U.S. Air Force Academy on Monday flipped the switch on a brand-spanking-new solar array at its facility in Colorado Springs. Designed and built by SunPower Corp., the 6-megawatt solar power system is connected to Colorado Spring Utilities’ electricity grid. In its first year of operation, the array is [...]

Thanks to an agreement between the solar panel manufacturing and installation company SunPower and Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) will have a fully operational, 6-megawatt (MW), 30-acre solar energy system by the summer of 2011.

The United States Air Force has signed a contract with the Schafer Corporation of Massachusetts to allow a test of concentrating solar power (CSP) at a Maui, Hawaii military site in an attempt to offset a military computer system’s power demand.