Wild burros are seen near the Ivanpah solar power plant on August 26, 2022. David McNew/Getty Images. A spokesperson for NRG said prices were competitive when the power agreements were signed in 2009.

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for ...

The plant owners then applied for and received a grant of $535 million from the Treasury Department under the section 1603 program to pay back part of the loan already guaranteed at no charge by ...

Renewable power advocates often claim wind and solar are less expensive energy sources than coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized ...

The $2.2 billion Ivanpah concentrated solar power facility in California has fallen well short of its expected power output and now has a year to get itself back on track, ...

(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 of mirrors pointed at ...

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for ...

The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for ...

When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in early 2014, it was pitched as the future of solar power. Just over a decade later, it’s closing.

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 ...