SunPower Partnering On Stanford University Solar Generating Station

Stanford is partnering with SunPower to make the campus energy supply greener by installing new rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems, or solar panels, and building an off-campus solar energy plant. The project is a part of the Stanford Energy Systems Innovations (SESI) project, an effort to reduce the university’s greenhouse gas emissions.

 
Along with the new PV systems and the solar farm, called the Stanford Solar Generating Station, SESI installed the new Central Energy Facility (CEF) to meet most of the campus’s heating demands. The university now uses electricity to produce chilled water and relies on a new electric heat recovery system to create hot water. This shift in energy use created the opportunity to introduce more solar production as well.