A California power utility is seeking to end a contract early, leading to the closure of the world's largest solar power plant on the California-Nevada border.

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.

Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A. to Las Vegas, in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada state line. Maybe you’ve read about birds getting fried to death as they fly through the sunlight directed to the tops of the towers by fields of mirrors.

Two units at the massive solar power plant near Primm, Nevada will shut down in the coming years as a deal with a California utility winds down.NRG Energy and P

The Primm plant went into service a decade ago. During the 2000s and 2010s, various private companies invested in large-scale concentrating solar power in the United States. “It

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has delayed the rollout date for its updated electronic license system (ELS). In an email sent Friday morning, Jan. 31, Kelly Straka, director of the DNR's Fish and Wildlife Division,

The heavy run off and quick moving waters of Friday, January 31, 2025, caused problems on roadways all across our viewing area. In the video attached above is a glimpse of what conditions looked like on Mathis Drive in Daniels in Raleigh County.

Desert Quartzite Solar and Storage project delivers 300 megawatts of electricity to Clean Power Alliance. (Photo: Business Wire) Desert Quartzite, located on Federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),

Sutter County, Yuba City and Live Oak have begun the process of joining a coalition of local government agencies in the region that have created an alternative to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) for electricity generation.

What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame

A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges one of the main companies involved in managing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center racially discriminated against one of

Nicaragua’s Congress has approved a constitutional reform that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife “copresidents” of the Central American nation. Rosario Murillo currently serves as vice p