Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

In sunny Southern California, where sunlight is abundant year-round, switching to solar energy is no longer a luxury—it’s a ...

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 towers, ...

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

The same bureaucratic mismanagement, corporate greed, and delusional left-wing energy policies that have turned California ...

Southern California will have a cool ... The Old Farmer's Almanac compares "solar patterns and historical weather conditions ...

A controversial development is underway in the small Mojave Desert town of Boron. Residents feel left in the dust.

Ivanpah Solar was built in an era when developers ... Unit 2 has a PPA with another major California utility, Southern California Edison, and is expected to remain in service.

Meanwhile, solar photovoltaic panels that convert ... EnergySource produce lithium from geothermal brine deep beneath Southern California’s Salton Sea. (I’ve written previously about ...

The concentrating solar array in California is on the path to closure after being hailed as a breakthrough for renewable ...

Southern California Edison, which buys the rest of ... The Ivanpah plant uses a technology known as solar-thermal, or concentrated solar, in which nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors ...