The opening of Ivanpah marked a milestone in the United States’ growing solar and renewable energy industry. It spans 3,500 acres and is a 386-megawatt solar concentrating thermal power plant ...

Last week, a major California utility — Pacific Gas &Electric — announced that it will no longer buy power from the Ivanpah solar plant ... generation in the United States.” ...

Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized Ivanpah solar power facility is going out of business, following a long line of other renewable energy project bankruptcies.