Huge Ivanpah solar power plant, owned by Google and Oakland company, opens as industry booms Jeff Holland, left, talks with Noel Hanson near a boilers that sit on 459-foot towers Tuesday, Feb. 11 ...

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 ...

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 three ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.

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, or it risks being forced ...

And so after 10 years of high costs and poor performance—the plant was supposed to operate for 25 years—Ivanpah will shut down entirely.

Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized Ivanpah solar power facility is going out of business, following a long line of other renewable energy project bankruptcies.

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility is shutting down two-thirds of its plant after Pacific Gas and Electric Company terminated its power purchase agreement with Solar Partners, which is ...