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The behemoth Ivanpah solar power plant built with federal subsidies to combat climate change is using increasing amounts of natural gas, a greenhouse-gas-emitting fuel, state and federal data show ...

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.

A solar power plant at the center of the Obama administration’s push to reduce America’s carbon footprint has its own carbon pollution problem. The administration’s initiative, wh… ...

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station, the world’s largest concentrating solar power (CSP) facility, was dedicated Thursday afternoon at a ceremony keynoted by U.S. Secretary of Energy ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is seen in Nipton, Calif., just south of Primm Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Follow Sam Morris on Twitter @sammorrisRJ.

IVANPAH VALLEY, Calif.— The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant. Long before the sun rises, computers aim five square miles of mirrors to reflect the first rays of dawn onto one of ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is located in Ivanpah Dry Lake, Calif. near the California-Nevada border. The 3,500-acre facility was completed in 2013. Maya Sugarman/KPCC ...

When the plant was just a proposal in 2007, the cost of electricity made using Ivanpah’s concentrated solar power was roughly the same as that from photovoltaic solar panels.