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

As of 2011, the technology produced less than one tenth of one percent of global energy demand. Many are familiar with so-called photovoltaic cells, or solar ... those found in computer chips.

Advertisement Article continues below this ad The Ivanpah plant uses a technology known as solar-thermal, or concentrated solar, in which nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors roughly the ...