California is keeping the Ivanpah solar plant operating due to “reliability” and the state’s “green” energy mandates, despite ...
Green energy crusaders vociferously deny that their campaign to banish fossil fuels has driven up energy costs. But the ...
Is California hedging its bets on an old solar warhorse, or is it protecting a crucial part of California’s renewable framework? That’s the reasoning process following the California Public Utilities ...
They shouldn’t be asked to pay more to fix the project’s flawed capital structure and bail out its junior creditors.
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 ...
A decade ago, three giant companies took advantage of federal incentives to build the world’s largest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, known as Ivanpah. It was “the wave of the future,” a new ...
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 ...
Here’s a $1.3 billion question. Who is a better guardian of your family’s financial interests? Is it PG&E or the State of ...
The solar industry is growing in the U.S., but a trade war could change thatDON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images You don’t get any brighter than the reflecting mirrors at the just-opened Ivanpah Solar Power ...
Utility power plants are many things—sprawling, expensive, often polluting—but one thing they are not is beautiful. Power plants are the engines of modern society, but we’d rather they stay out of the ...