The Blue Wing Solar Project is a 16.6
MWp (14.4
MWAC)
solar photovoltaic
A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. It consists of an arrangement of several components, including solar panels to abs ...
(PV) power plant in
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio ( ; Spanish for "Anthony of Padua, Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the List of Texas metropolitan areas, third-largest metropolitan area in Texa ...
. It was one of the largest PV facilities in Texas when it came online in late 2010 and is owned by a
Duke Energy
Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company ranked as the 141st largest company in the United States in 2024 – its highest-ever placement on the ...
Subsidiary.
Project Details
The project covers near the intersection of highways IH 37 and U.S. 181.
[Texas' Largest Solar Project Breaks Ground In San Antonio]
(April 15, 2010), ''CPS Energy''. It has 214,500 solar photovoltaic modules manufactured by US firm
First Solar
First Solar, Inc. is a publicly traded American manufacturer of solar panels, and provider of utility-scale PV power plants, supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. First Solar uses ...
that are mounted onto fixed-tilt (20deg) racks. The plant is expected to produce more than 26 GWh of electricity per year.
The installation also includes a 500-kilowatt demonstration facility where a variety of other thin film and crystalline silicon PV modules, as well as a
concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) unit, have been installed for evaluation and comparison purposes.
The Blue Wing Solar Project: 223,900 First Solar panels and 4,444 racks on 113 acres producing 16 megawatts
GreenTech Media, November 16, 2010
Electricity Production
See also
* List of photovoltaic power stations
The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 500 megawatts (MW) in current net capacity.Note that nominal power may be AC or DC, depending on the plant, and therefore any totals quoted are hybrid. SeAC-DC conundru ...
* Renewable energy in the United States
A renewable resource (also known as a flow resource) is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of t ...
* Renewable portfolio standard
A renewable portfolio standard (RPS) is a regulation that requires the increased production of energy from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. Other common names for the same concept include Renewable Electric ...
* Solar power in the United States
Solar power includes solar farms as well as local distributed generation, mostly on rooftops and increasingly from community solar arrays. In 2024, utility-scale solar power generated 218.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) in the United States. Total ...
References
External links
CPS websiteDuke website
{{Solar power in the United States
Energy infrastructure completed in 2010
Buildings and structures in San Antonio
Solar power stations in Texas
Photovoltaic power stations in the United States
2010 establishments in Texas
Duke Energy