Operator NRG says its concentrating solar power technology has fallen behind solar silicon photovoltaic generation in terms of capital and operating costs.

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, ...

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 ...

In January, PG&E announced a deal with the owners of the Ivanpah solar plant — which covers five miles of federal land in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border — to stop buying ...

When the Ivanpah concentrated solar project went online in 2014, it opened to great fanfare. Then-President Barack Obama was making climate change an important issue in his second term, which included ...

In its Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting 26 gigawatts of solar capacity to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014 ...

A major solar power plant project that was granted over a billion dollars in federal loans is on the road to closure, with energy experts blasting the project as a "boondoggle" that harmed the ...

Ivanpah is yet another example of the financial perils of allowing government bureaucrats to manipulate the market with ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert faces shutdown in 2026 due to inefficiencies, as PG&E cancels contracts.