One of the most ambitious solar projects in history is quietly heading for shutdown after just a decade of operation. The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert was once hailed as ...

Green energy crusaders vociferously deny that their campaign to banish fossil fuels has driven up energy costs. But the latest twist involving a solar power plant on the Nevada border highlights the ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility rose from California’s Mojave Desert as a symbol of America’s ambition to expand clean energy on a massive scale. Costing $2.2 billion and covering about five square ...

A small fire shut down a generating tower at the world's largest solar-thermal power plant, leaving the sprawling facility on the California-Nevada border operating at only a third of its capacity, ...

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 ...

A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new ...

The largest solar power plant of its kind is about to turn on in California's Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power about 140,000 homes and will be a boon to the state ...