From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Modern technologies create opportunities for any state to switch to renewable sources of cheap energy from water, wind, or the sun. But for this to happen, of course, efforts must be made and several ...

It spans 3,500 acres and is a 386-megawatt solar concentrating thermal power plant consisting of three individual units. With costs mounting to $2.2 billion, it also received a $1.6 billion loan from ...

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

a green energy project that consists of three solar concentrating thermal power plants in California. The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how ...

Ivanpah is yet another example of the financial perils of allowing government bureaucrats to manipulate the market with ...

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

The larger of the two is a functioning solar tower power plant, meaning it can produce electricity. A ceramic radiation receiver at the top of the tower absorbs the concentrated sunlight and uses it ...

Ivanpah’s concentrated solar technology ... project last month. Power companies see the writing on the wall. After previously announcing it would retire two Utah coal plants in 2036 and 2042 ...

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly ... The Ivanpah plant uses a technology known as solar-thermal, or concentrated solar, in which nearly 350,000 computer-controlled ...