the facility occupies about 320 acres of previous agricultural farmland, and is located near several other large solar power plants in the sunny and cool san luis valley. it was developed and constructed by sunpower, and is owned by a subsidiary of the french company total s.a. which is also the majority owner of sunpower. the plant is built using sunpower's oasis power plant system, which includes single-axis tracking, robotic panel cleaning, and real-time monitoring at the company's operations center.