Workers at the Ivanpah plant have a name for the spectacle: “Streamers.” The project, developed by Bechtel, had an initial cost projected at $2.2 billion, creating the largest solar farm in ...

The plant was built at a cost of about $2.2 billion and received loan guarantees worth $1.6 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy.. Back in 2010, when the plant was first certified by the ...

While Barron-Gafford said some laughed him off when he first proposed the idea of growing crops in the shade of solar panels, ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for ...

The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.” But after 10 years, the federally funded plant is ...

The American solar cell industry produced only 2.2% of the global supply in 2023, while the demand for solar technology and for energy overall continues to grow rapidly.