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 ...

Instead it will phase out by 2026, the utility said. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System consists of three plants, each of which contain more than 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that ...

The opening of Ivanpah marked a milestone in the United States’ growing solar and renewable energy industry. It spans 3,500 acres and is a 386-megawatt solar concentrating thermal power plant ...

Power plant operator and co-owner NRG Energy Inc. is preparing to close down part of its Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in San Bernardino County, Calif., a little more than 11 years after it began ...

Last week, a major California utility — Pacific Gas &Electric — announced that it will no longer buy power from the Ivanpah solar plant off Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California border.

The Ivanpah solar plant, a large-scale concentrated solar power project, is set to close due to the cost-effectiveness of photovoltaic solar panels. The plant's closure has ignited a political ...

It wasn’t clear which solar technologies would prove most cost effective when Ivanpah was being built 15 years ago, said Kenneth Gillingham, an economics professor at Yale School of the Environment.

Fields of heliostat mirrors reflect sunlight onto a boiler mounted onto solar power towers at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar thermal power station ...