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.

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ivanpah uses 173,500 mirrors to reflect sunlight onto boilers at the top of tall towers. The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, once the world's largest of its type, located in San Bernardino County ...

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 ...

The plant was built at a time when capturing solar ... sunlight onto a boiler mounted onto solar power towers at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar thermal ...

The Ivanpah plant is set to begin closing in 2026, with units decommissioned to prepare the land to potentially be repurposed for a different kind of solar power. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty ...