Operator NRG says its concentrating solar power technology has fallen behind solar silicon photovoltaic generation in terms of capital and operating costs.

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

Ivanpah uses a process known as concentrating solar power. The plant uses about 350,000 mirrors, each about the size of a garage door, to reflect sunlight to the top of a tower where the sun's ...

Ivanpah’s concentrated solar technology, which uses sunlight ... It’s possible Ivanpah’s third and final tower will close, too. An Edison spokesperson told me the utility is in “ongoing ...

Ivanpah Solar is a 386-megawatt concentrating solar ... to track the sun and direct its rays to a receiver at the top of a tower. Water is piped to the top of the tower and runs through a heat ...

That went through on Jan. 14. IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas. (Courtesy NRG, ...

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

In 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in loan guarantees to finance the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a green energy project that ...

The plant promised to demonstrate technologies to help with the so-called energy transition. It received a $1.6 billion loan guarantee, which hasn't been paid, on top of other subsidies. Now it may ...