sentences:  The initial technology and ideas that led to the creation of SunPower started from solar power research projects in the lab of Richard Swanson, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.On April 24, 1985, EOS Electric Power was officially incorporated by co-founders, Richard Swanson and Richard (Dick) Crane, an engineer in Swanson's lab.Robert Lorenzini later joined and the company's name was changed to SunPower in 1988.