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Increase (Decrease) in Revenue from Net Changes in Estimates

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Increase (Decrease) in Revenue from Net Changes in Input Cost Estimates

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Increase (Decrease) in Revenue from Net Changes in Transaction Price

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Net Change in Estimate as a Percentage of Aggregate Revenue for Associated Projects

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Remaining Performance Obligations, Percent of Revenue Recognized

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Amount of revenue recognized arising from contract liability from change in timeframe for performance obligation to be satisfied.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of increase (decrease) in right to consideration in exchange for good or service transferred to customer when right is conditioned on something other than passage of time.

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Amount of transaction price allocated to performance obligation that has not been recognized as revenue.

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Revenue from Contracts with Customers Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended								12 Months Ended
	Dec. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jul. 01, 2018 USD ($)	Apr. 01, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Oct. 01, 2017 USD ($)	Jul. 02, 2017 USD ($)	Apr. 02, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 30, 2018 USD ($) positions	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) positions	Jan. 01, 2017 USD ($) positions
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 456,837	$ 428,263	$ 449,097	$ 391,888	$ 651,134	$ 485,836	$ 327,981	$ 329,095	$ 1,726,085	$ 1,794,047	$ 2,552,637
Increase (decrease) in revenue from net changes in transaction prices									0	0	(743)
Increase (decrease) in revenue from net changes in input cost estimates									(1,045)	0	5,768
Net increase (decrease) in revenue from net changes in estimates									$ (1,045)	$ 0	$ 5,025
Number of projects with changes in estimates \| positions									1	0	6
Net change in estimate as a percentage of aggregate revenue for associated projects									0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Increase in contract assets									$ 43,500
Decrease in contract liability									31,500
Decrease in contract liabilities									94,400	$ 58,700
SunPower Technologies
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									680,471	883,841	$ 1,553,637
SunPower Energy Services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									$ 1,045,614	910,206	999,000
Joint Base Anacostia Bolling (JBAB)
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Percentage of Revenue Recognized									98.90%
Miyagi Osato Solar Park
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Percentage of Revenue Recognized									85.00%
Various Distribution Generation Projects1
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Percentage of Revenue Recognized									87.40%
Module and component sales
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									$ 1,010,242	837,102	790,135
Revenue, remaining performance obligation, amount	466,600								466,600
Module and component sales \| SunPower Technologies
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									532,590	408,303	313,652
Module and component sales \| SunPower Energy Services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									477,652	428,799	476,483
Solar power systems sales and EPC services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									361,101	682,701	1,446,307
Revenue, remaining performance obligation, amount	62,300								62,300
Solar power systems sales and EPC services \| SunPower Technologies
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									147,756	470,851	1,238,494
Solar power systems sales and EPC services \| SunPower Energy Services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									213,345	211,850	207,813
Operations and maintenance
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									49,089	43,643	36,208
Operations and maintenance \| SunPower Technologies
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									0	0	0
Operations and maintenance \| SunPower Energy Services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									49,089	43,643	36,208
Leasing
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									305,653	230,601	279,987
Leasing \| SunPower Technologies
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									125	4,687	1,491
Leasing \| SunPower Energy Services
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue									305,528	$ 225,914	$ 278,496
O&M contracts of utility-scale PV solar power systems
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Revenue, remaining performance obligation, amount	$ 10,600								$ 10,600