Between $730 million and $780 million of a $1.6 billion government-backed loan tied to the power plant remained unpaid. Both the Trump and Biden administrations have looked at closing the plant.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Last week, California regulators rejected plans to shut down the Ivanpah Solar Project along Interstate 15 at the Nevada border. The solar plant, once seen as a model for the future ...

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the three-tower field of mirrors in the Mojave Desert just past Primm, is once ...

Ivanpah promised a desert clean energy boom. Twelve years later, a mix of high costs, zero storage, and bird deaths leaves it ...

If you’d ever like to visit a physical embodiment of the argument that government should get out and stay out of just about everything, take Interstate 15 from Southern California toward Las Vegas and ...

Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream. Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but. The solar power plant, ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Regulators allow California's Ivanpah solar plant to operate despite killing thousands of birds yearly, with no fines issued ...

The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President ...

The largest solar power plant of its kind is about to turn on in California's Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power about 140,000 homes and will be a boon to the state ...

BrightSource Energy said Unit 1 at the 370 MW Ivanpah solar energy project reached first flux on Feb. 25, meaning a significant amount of sunlight was reflected off the solar field mirrors. More than ...