This a about as big a PV plant as I've seen. Rows of single panels on rails, tracking from east to west. A very large substation in the middle.
https://goo.gl/maps/v1L7FGoR133jTTPD9
I happened upon it while on the way to visit Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge:
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/bitter_lake/
Included in photo album:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/6bHtiWHAKMfrFgo17
is a much smaller plant just south of Roswell. Probably less than 1000 60 cell panels, fixed facing south.
This was my second trip to Bottomless Lakes State Park. The first, ill fated and in 1967, I completed about half a lap of the 7.7 mile road race course "Los Ochas Millas" (as it was advertised). This trip, I did 2.5 laps letting the car do most of the driving.
Bottomless Lakes is a series of sinkhole lakes much like the ones in/near Santa Rosa also on the Pecos River but up stream.
See, also, photos of the Iron Cross memorial in Roswell:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/german-pow-iron-cross
Robert Goddard moved to Roswell in 1930 to work on rockets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
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