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.

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.

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal for generating solar power, but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s developers ...

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal for generating solar power, but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s ...

The Mojave Desert concentrated solar power plant began operations a decade ago and was one of the first projects in the US to provide utility-scale power to consumers. According to a statement ...

In the Mojave Desert sits the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant. The power plant plans to shut off two-thirds of its output by 2026. Some of the factors that caused the early shutdown are economic problems, ...

While solar power generation is an environmentally friendly, clean energy source that reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases, it can also be criticized for ...

Ivanpah is a concentrating solar power plant, which uses 173,500 heliostats ... The plant occupies more than 3,200 acres of federal land in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada state ...