The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.

The Ivanpah solar plant, off the Interstate 15, just across the state line from Primm, will continue to operate after the California Public Utilities Commission denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California will shut down in 2026 due to inefficiency and environmental concerns. Despite $1.6 billion in federal loans, it failed to meet energy goals.

It cost $2.2 billion, gorged itself on nearly 3,500 acres of the Mojave Desert, roasted birds, threatened indigenous tortoises, blinded pilots, and from both the air and the ground appears as an ugly ...

If you’d ever like to visit a physical embodiment of the argument that government should get out and stay out of just about everything, take Interstate 15 from Southern California toward Las Vegas and ...

A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new ...