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 ... The sun’s hyper-concentrated energy turns this water to steam, which drives a turbine to create ...

Ivanpah is a concentrating solar power plant, which uses 173,500 heliostats ... onto boilers at the top of 450-ft-tall towers to make steam that turns turbines to generate power.

The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, once the world's largest of its ... The heat from the sunlight creates steam, which then spins turbines to generate electricity. Although the plant's contract ...

water is boiled and a steam turbine is driven. Since the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant began operation, there have been frequent incidents of birds flying into the plant and catching fire due to the ...

A large solar energy project proposed for Douglas County likely will require an increase in electric rates, as will a pair of ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks ... a central tower that contains boilers. These generate steam which drives steam turbines that produce energy.

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.