Corporate solar collaboration SunPower+hp

SunPower, which is based in San Jose California, has released some of the details for their partnership with Hewlett Packard to install solar power at the technology company's San Diego manufacturing plant. Sun Power will be installing a one megawatt solar electric power system and HP will actually buy the electricity for less than what dirty energy would have cost! According to SunPower's projections, the system is estimated to offset over a million pounds of CO2 per year.

One of the coolest parts of this HP+SunPower collaboration is that eventually it will benefit employees of Hewlett Packard. The partnership is creating a side program to give US employees of HP a discount on SunPower products to be used on their own homes. For me this is great news because it means the solution is more than just a "greenwashing" publicity feat. While other environmentally conscious companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have installed solar arrays on their headquarters, to date, HP is the first to share their partnership leverage with employees!