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, ...

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.

The Ivanpah solar plant, off the Interstate 15, just across the state line from Primm, will continue to operate after the California Public Utilities Commission denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s ...

Texas-based Janta Power has just snagged US$5.5 million in a round of seed funding to continue the deployment of its pivoting solar power towers. The vertical design and smart tracking functions of ...

There is a blinding beacon of light at the top of a tower in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It’s a solar power facility called Ivanpah. It’s been supplying enough juice to power 140,000 homes for ...

It cost $2.2 billion, gorged itself on nearly 3,500 acres of the Mojave Desert, roasted birds, threatened indigenous tortoises, blinded pilots, and from both the air and the ground appears as an ugly ...

Molten Salt Solar Power Tower Technology is an advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) system that utilises molten salt as both a heat transfer and storage medium. In these systems, a central receiver ...

Concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies harness solar radiation through reflective devices to generate high-temperature heat, which is subsequently converted to electricity. Widely deployed ...