Ivanpah solar plant doomed as green energy gets
A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be
Remarkably, the solar farm also relied on natural gas to stay running, which of course goes against the whole reason it was introduced in the first place. “Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government subsidized energy schemes,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, told Fox News.
The reason why a $2 billion solar farm in the California desert 'failed' has been revealed, after authorities decided to pull the plug on the ambitious project. A whopping $2.2 billion was splashed on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California's Mojave Desert in 2014, with it promising big things.
The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, its power has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies.
By Laura Paddison, CNN From a distance, the Ivanpah Solar Farm looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it's a vast, alien-looking facility with hundreds of thousands of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty.
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