Alamosa Solar

OperatingSolar

Ranked #27 of 180 Solar plants in CO#1483 of 7447 nationally

30 MW Solar operating in Alamosa, CO — Public Service Company of Colorado

EIAGEMWD

30 MW

Nameplate Capacity

Generators

unit

Solar Photovoltaic

Technology

2012

Operating Since

Location

Coordinates

37.5986, -105.9558

County

Alamosa, CO

Nearby Plants

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Greater Sandhill I
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Ownership & Operator

Owner data does not fully agree across sources.

EIA typically reports the operating utility, while GEM resolves to the financial owner or parent corporation. Both can be correct.

Field	EIA	GEM	Wikidata
Operator	Solar of Alamosa LLC	KEPCO	—
Owner(s)	Alamosa Enhanced, LLC	KEPCO [100%]	—
Status	Operating	operating	—

Ownership Chain

GEM identifies the owner as KEPCO [100%]

This entity is not yet in the GEM ownership database — chain unavailable.

About

The Alamosa Solar Generating Plant is a 35.3 MWp (30.0 MWAC) concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) power station, the largest in the world when it was completed, in May 2012. It is currently the world's third largest operating CPV facility. The output is being sold to Public Service of Colorado, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, under a long term Power Purchase Agreement.

Read more on Wikipedia

Alamosa Solar is a 30 MW solar photovoltaic power plant located in Alamosa County, Colorado. The plant, which began operating in 2012, is owned and operated by Solar of Alamosa LLC. It utilizes a single generator with dual-axis solar tracking technology. Alamosa Solar is interconnected to the Public Service Company of Colorado balancing authority within the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) NERC region.

In its most recent year of operation, Alamosa Solar generated 35,133 MWh of electricity, achieving a capacity factor of 13.4%. The plant ranks 25th out of 177 power plants in Colorado and 1276th out of 7108 plants nationally. Financial data indicates that Alamosa Solar has a power purchase agreement (PPA) price of $35 per MWh.

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