From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at ...

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.

A massive solar plant in the Mojave Desert is lying dormant just 11 years after it went into operation and there are ...

According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar technologies on the market.

“They’ve moved away from this idea that the tortoises and the solar panels can live happily together ... mass solar development in the Mojave Desert. Solar a controversial issue in Nye County ...

“We continue to be amazed that the BLM pushed so hard for this project at the expense of the declining desert tortoise. Solar energy does not need to be built on the most sensitive habitat ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...