$2,200,000,000 solar farm in California desert switched off after failure

Experts believe at least 6,000 birds die each year after flying into the concentrated sunlight - Joe Yates

A $2 billion solar farm project to combat climate change has ended in disaster, after officials were forced to pull the plug on the experiment.
After splashing $2.2 billion on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, which is located in California’s Mojave Desert, it was hoped that the state would be able to cash in on the money it saved that would have been spent on fossil fuels...
Construction started back in 2010, and four years later it was complete, but now 12 years on, it is earmarked for closure next year, in 2026...
Despite its ambition, Ivanpah never produced the energy it promised, and quite incredibly, it also relied on natural gas to stay running - hardly the green solution it claimed to be...