It was the future. It would demonstrate how to save the planet. It would produce electricity clean and cheap and immune to the vagaries of international shifts in prices, interest rates, currency ...

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, ...

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.

Is California hedging its bets on an old solar warhorse, or is it protecting a crucial part of California’s renewable framework? That’s the reasoning process following the California Public Utilities ...

California politics are synonymous with many things, but failed energy policy might be the most relevant. The Ivanpah solar power plant is on its way to being shut down, just 11 years after it opened.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California regulators blocked the shutdown of Ivanpah, one of the world’s largest solar thermal plants, against ...

If you’d ever like to visit a physical embodiment of the argument that government should get out and stay out of just about everything, take Interstate 15 from Southern California toward Las Vegas and ...

LOS ANGELES — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, ...

The Ivanpah solar plant, a large-scale concentrated solar power project, is set to close due to the cost-effectiveness of photovoltaic solar panels. The plant's closure has ignited a political debate ...

Here’s yet another example of the financial perils of allowing government bureaucrats to manipulate the market with someone else’s money for some perceived public benefit — and this one is right in ...