Operator NRG says its concentrating solar power technology has fallen behind solar silicon photovoltaic generation in terms of capital and operating costs.
For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...
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 towers, ...
Microsoft has added another 389 megawatts of renewable power to its portfolio as the tech giant scrambles to meet the power ...
In its Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting 26 gigawatts of solar capacity to ...
Masdar is building the largest solar-plus-battery project worldwide—one that will run 24 hours a day, dispelling the central ...
The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in ...
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert faces shutdown in 2026 due to inefficiencies, as PG&E cancels contracts.
The concentrating solar array in California is on the path to closure after being hailed as a breakthrough for renewable ...
That same day, the Biden administration began the process of withdrawing more than 300,000 acres of public land from new ...
A once-celebrated solar power plant in the Mojave Desert is now facing closure, just 11 years after its grand opening ...