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.

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, ...

When night falls in the Batwa village of Lukwangulo, only the local chief’s house is illuminated. In this village in the ...

For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in early 2014, it was pitched as the future of solar power. Just over a decade later, it’s closing. The plant’s co-owner NRG Energy ...

The ruling on the project comes as renewable energy faces new headwinds under the Trump White House, though large-scale solar ...

Solar and Electric-Powered Homes Feel the Effects of Power Outages Differently Feb. 7, 2025 — An expert in energy technologies uses AI tools to investigate the impact of extreme weather on solar ...

Solar energy has long been touted as the solution to fossil fuel, its affordability making it accessible to all. But even as ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided to give fossil fuel power plants preference over clean energy when it comes ...

VDE Americas’ new hail risk atlas, now available for use on the Esri ArcGIS platform, can compare and evaluate the site-specific hail risk of current and future solar projects across the United States ...