Solar leasing is well on its way to becoming mainstream. SunPower Corp. and Citi today announced a new fund to finance approximately $105 million in residential solar lease projects. According to the announcement, the lease program will be available to qualifying homeowners in eight states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and [...]

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 [...]

Earlier in the week I took a look at which brands of solar panels have been top choices for residential solar energy systems in California. We found that three manufacturers — SunPower, Sharp Solar and BP Solar — have accounted for about half of all residential solar energy systems, judging from the number of rebate [...]

This morning, I got to tinkering around with some numbers from California Solar Statistics, a program of the state’s Energy Commission and Public Utilities Commission. What did I find? Well, beyond a wealth of details on system size, average installed cost and California solar incentives, I verified that most solar home energy systems in the [...]

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.

This latest installation builds upon a relationship between Macy’s and SunPower that gegan in 2007. Since then SunPower has installed more than 12 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity at over 30 Macy’s buildings throughout the United States – including the facility in Goodyear.

We talk a lot on this blog about how solar panels can cut monthly electricity costs and, in some states (like New Jersey, California, Arizona, Hawaii, Colorado and Pennsylvania) offer homeowners a stunningly attractive return on investment. Sometimes it’s worth remembering, however, that solar panels produce clean, emissions-free electricity. In other words, solar power can [...]

The Greater Sandhill Solar Project, as it is called, will be built by SunPower Corporation and have a generating capacity of 17 megawatts (MW) – enough to power 6,700 average American homes for a full year.

Through the California Solar Initiative’s (CSI) Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration (RD&D) Program, the state is awarding SunPower a $1.8 million grant that will allow the solar technology company to research large-scale solar energy storage.

The French food retailer Casino Group, and its renewable energy subsidiary GreenYellow, have signed another deal with SunPower Corporation in which SunPower will sell Casino Group 20 megawatts (MW) worth of high-efficiency solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.