Questa Solar Facility
The Questa Solar Facility is a 1.17 MWp concentrator photovoltaics power station in Questa, New Mexico. Upon its completion in late 2010, it was one of the largest CPV facilities in the world, and the first utility-scale installation of Concentrix Solar technology in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Power station
- Description: concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) power station in Questa, New Mexico.
- Address: 24 Abra Road, Questa, NM
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Questa and Cerro.
Questa
Village
Photo: John Collier Jr., Public domain.
Red River is a small mountain resort town in North Central New Mexico. Tucked into a canyon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this former mining town now thrives on tourism as the home of a popular ski resort.
Cerro
Hamlet
Photo: It’sOnlyMakeBelieve, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cerro is an unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States located along New Mexico State Road 378. It was founded in 1854 by settlers from Taos and Questa and was named for Cerro Guadalupe. Cerro is situated 2½ miles north of Questa Solar Facility.
Lama Foundation
Hamlet
Lama Foundation is a spiritual community founded in 1967, located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, seventeen miles north of Taos. The original commune was co-founded by Barbara Durkee, Stephen Durkee, and Jonathan Altman. Lama Foundation is situated 6 miles south of Questa Solar Facility.
Questa Solar Facility
- Categories: photovoltaic power station and industry
- Location: Taos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.71665° or 36° 42′ 60″ northLongitude
-105.60686° or 105° 36′ 25″ westOpen location code
858PP98V+M7OpenStreetMap ID
way 705578839Wikidata ID
Q65091780
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