For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

The so-called Antípodas project will be based on the enormous solar energy potential of Chile’s the Atacama Desert ... invest in building out its solar plant infrastructure to make way for ...

The Atacama region is becoming one of the world s solar power hotspots. In May alone, a 97 MW PV plant the Carrera Pinto park has begun construction in the desert, while HydroChile S.A ...

According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar technologies on the market.

In the study “Photovoltaic power resource at the Atacama Desert under climate change ... with dozens of large scale utility solar plants having come online there during the past decade ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

One study has found that Paranal, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert, has the darkest skies of any major astronomical research site. That would change if the plant, called INNA, is built.

Despite the harsh conditions, the Atacama Desert is home to a surprising number of plant species, many of which have adapted to survive long periods of drought. These flowers lay dormant and when ...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels now cover rooftops in San Diego, California; the Atacama Desert in Chile ... designed for centralized fossil fuel plants, not decentralized renewables.

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive ... In the Mojave, the 2013 arrival of the Ivanpah solar thermal plant created concerns about how the facility would ...

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ... evidence of potential life on planets beyond our solar system - called exoplanets - and peer back ...