Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists Bureau of Land Management just revealed an ambitious plan for renewable energy.

The green energy boom is accelerating in the deserts of California. It’s a boom that’s been encouraged by the Biden administration, which has streamlined renewable energy development within nearly 11 ...

For decades, engineers and policymakers have imagined harnessing the blazing Saharan sun to fuel Europe and beyond. While the ...

While poorly sited solar farms can have unintended consequences in the desert, large-scale solar proponents say the technology has major advantages over rooftop solar. The biggest one is cost.

During a meeting at Palm Springs City Hall in June, public commenters tore into the Palen solar farm, which would be built on 4,200 acres of public land just south of Joshua Tree National Park ...

Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar development in North America in the heart of California’s Colorado Desert.

Amazon officials recently announced that its first solar farm-plus-battery energy storage project has become fully operational in the High Desert. Located in Baldy Mesa near Adelanto, the project ...

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, located ...

A vast solar farm with over 621,000 panels shimmer like a mirage but with the capability to power close to ... The seemingly desolate area of the Nevada desert is the source of the green energy ...

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LAS VEGAS — High above the Las Vegas Strip, solar panels blanketed the roof of Mandalay Bay Convention Center — 26,000 of them, rippling across an area larger than 20 football fields.