Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will announce contracts today for three new large solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, whose open spaces and clear skies have placed it at the center of a ...

BrightSource EnergyÕs first 100 MW commercial plant in the Mojave Desert will consist of approximately 50,000 heliostats. ... geothermal fields, solar power plants, ...

This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned MacGillivray's Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert.

The solar-thermal plants will utilize Brightsource Energy’s proprietary Distributed Power Tower technology, which claims to be much more energy efficient than past parabolic trough designs.

Solar power plants also require vast amounts of water the desert cannot spare. The plants use four times as much water as a natural gas power plant and twice as much water as a coal or nuclear power ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources ...