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, ...

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 ...

While that’s a welcome development, one question that’s being asked about Stargate is where the energy to power its lofty AI infrastructure will come from. Nuclear and solar energy ...

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 ...

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more ...

has used helioseismic techniques to provide an independent measurement of the absorption of high-energy radiation by the solar plasma in the deep layers of its structure. This collaborative work ...

Abu Dhabi will soon be home to a 5.2-GW solar farm – snagging the top spot on the global solar energy plant leaderboard. That's part of a gigascale project set to be built in the capital of the ...

New solar capacity easily surpassed all other energy sources during the first 11 months of 2024, followed by wind, according to the SUN DAY Campaign, which reviewed the data. Solar was 81.4% of ...