SunPower commissions 3.3 MW of solar capacity at California schools

Oct 24, 2011 - US solar panel maker and installer SunPower Corp (NASDAQ:SPWRA) on Monday inaugurated solar power systems with overall capacity of 3.3 MW at five schools in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District in California.

The systems, completed earlier this month, will meet more than two-thirds of the energy consumption of the schools, SunPower said. They are expected to save the school district over USD 20 million (EUR 14.4m) in power costs over their 25-year lifetime.

SunPower said that during the 2011/12 school year it is working on solar projects at over 90 school sites in California, including the five systems in the San Ramon Valley School District.

(USD 1 = EUR 0.722)

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