For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures like this are a natural part of the race to find the winning solutions

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

(CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert ... and from utilities Pacific Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Edison, which ...