The department’s new policy requires Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s office to weigh in on virtually every permit for solar ...

11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug ...

BrightSource Energy said Unit 1 at the 370 MW Ivanpah solar energy project reached first flux on Feb. 25, meaning a significant amount of sunlight was reflected off the solar field mirrors.

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System consists of three plants, each of which contain more than 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that focus the sun's rays on a central tower that ...

NIPTON, Calif. – The Ivanpah solar power plant stretches over more than 5 square miles of the Mojave Desert. Almost 350,000 mirrors the size of garage doors tilt toward the ...

The Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant, located at the base of Clark Mountain close to the Nevada border, will partially shut down after PG&E pulled two of its power purchase agreements.

Over the years since Ivanpah began construction, photovoltaic solar panels have become so cheap that no other solar technology can even hope to compete. Between 2014 and 2021, the cost of utility ...

It wasn’t clear which solar technologies would prove most cost effective when Ivanpah was being built 15 years ago, said Kenneth Gillingham, an economics professor at Yale School of the Environment.

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...