Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal for generating solar power, but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s developers agreed to a series of measures to ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...

In the Mojave Desert sits the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant. The power plant plans to shut off two-thirds of its output by 2026. Some of the factors that caused the early shutdown are economic problems, ...

As the solar industry accelerates, the application of flexible mounting systems continues to expand, spanning from ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

In the Basra province, Iraq has started building Basra Sun, the country’s biggest solar power plant, which will have a 1,000 ...

Wild burros are seen near the Ivanpah solar power plant on August 26, 2022. David McNew/Getty Images A spokesperson for NRG said prices were competitive when the power agreements were signed in 2009.

The Ivanpah solar power plant near the California-Nevada ... Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises.

(CNN) — 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 ...