The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.

Abengoa and BrightSource Energy signed an agreement to jointly develop, build and operate two solar power towers in California. Both companies will work together to permit and finance the 500 MW Palen ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

Texas startup Janta Power has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its next-generation solar power towers, a vertical alternative to flat solar farms. The funding round was led by MaC ...

Sometimes, government makes a bad bet. 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 ...

New wind and solar power installations, and the cheap, clean energy they provide to America, may not survive the Trump administration. Instead, the administration is promoting energy production from ...

EU-funded researchers are looking to hot air to overcome the supply and demand issues faced by solar energy and ease the clean energy transition. By Michael Allen As the world shifts toward renewable ...

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