A Solar Pioneer: CoServ Celebrates 10th Anniversary of the CoServ Solar Farm
*The CoServ Solar Station in Krugerville is currently inactive due to maintenance, but we wanted to showcase CoServ's investment in innovation and how far solar energy has come over the last decade.
Innovation is part of CoServ’s mission statement, and one of the best examples of that is the CoServ Solar Station in Krugerville.
On Sept. 25, CoServ will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the solar farm. In 2020, CoServ expanded its clean energy portfolio by entering into a power purchase agreement with the much bigger 100-MW Lapetus Solar Project in far West Texas.
Lapetus has more than 340,000 individual solar panels compared to the 8,488 panels at CoServ’s Solar Farm. But CoServ’s Solar Station was miles ahead of its time, as we were one of the first Texas co-ops to have one.
While horizon-spanning solar farms like Lapetus are the norm in Texas today, that wasn’t the case in 2015. To put it into perspective, CoServ’s 2-megawatt Solar Farm came online at a time when there was 288 MW of utility-scale solar in the entire Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. In July 2025, ERCOT reported more than 32,000 MW of solar!
The project was a showcase for co-ops, earning recognition from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Co-op leaders from across the country toured CoServ’s solar farm when it first opened. Over the years, CoServ has had tours for all grade levels, even hosting students from the University of North Texas.
“They’re able to get right up close and personal with the solar panels,” said Randy Copeland CoServ’s Energy Education Lead. “We teach them how it all works from the individual panels to the inverter to the transformer to our power lines and, finally to our Members’ homes and businesses.”
Historical Connection
CoServ’s history with this site dates back decades ago when the co-op first ran electricity to the home and barn. CoServ Employee Craig Scoggins remembers the days when his grandmother would take him to visit his Uncle Ike and Aunt Mae Byrom’s peanut farm, now the CoServ Solar Station.
“I would chase or be chased by farm animals around the property,” said Craig, CoServ’s Manager of Materials Supply and Coordination. “Having a family member’s former homestead turned into a solar farm for a company that I have worked at for almost 33 years is special.”