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 ...

The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around battery ...

Cook’s home is one of 34 currently enrolled in ... could integrate into the energy market as if they were a power plant or solar farm. Traditionally, electricity is generated at a large scale ...

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 ...

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 ...

COCHRANTON — A 1970 New York Times article described the new PPG glass plant in Crawford County as the largest of its type in the world, producing up to 100 million square feet of glass a year.

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.