The UC Davis campus is home to a 62-acre solar power plant, the largest in the UC system and thought to be the largest of its type on any U.S. college campus. Built and operated by SunPower, the plant generates 14 percent of electricity needs for the Davis campus and will reduce the campus’s carbon footprint by an estimated 9 percent, or 14,000 metric tons. Combined with other purchases of solar and hydroelectric energy, the plant is part of UC Davis’ plan to obtain 60 percent of its electricity needs from renewable and carbon-neutral sources by 2017.