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.

The Ivanpah solar plant, once a beacon of cutting-edge technology, is closing due to the rapid advancement and cost reduction ...

For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, once the world's largest of its type, located in San Bernardino County, California, will shut ...

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 ...

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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 ...