Local firm sells sun power for cars

BOULDER — Consumers who buy the electricity-powered Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus also can buy a $10,000 solar-panel system to juice it up from Namaste Solar Electric Inc. in Boulder.

Namaste is a local dealer of SunPower solar panels. San Jose, California,-based SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWR) sells a 2.5 kilowatt SunPower solar system for the “discounted” price of $10,000 in its “Drive Green for Life” program, not including other rebates and incentives, according to the SunPower website.

Anecdotally, there’s been interest from Boulder customers in the national program, said Dan Yechout, sales director at Namaste.

Because the new program is “just getting off…