The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.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 ...
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$2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money: ‘Never lived up to its promises’
Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream. Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but. The solar power plant, ...
To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give heliostat mirrors a side hustle. At the National Solar Thermal Test Facility ...
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility rose from California’s Mojave Desert as a symbol of America’s ambition to expand clean energy on a massive scale. Costing $2.2 billion and covering about five square ...
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 ...
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