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 ...

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 ...

It cost $2.2 billion, gorged itself on nearly 3,500 acres of the Mojave Desert, roasted birds, threatened indigenous tortoises, blinded pilots, and from both the air and the ground appears as an ugly ...

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 ...