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FILE - This Aug. 13, 2014 photo shows an array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site in Primm, Nev. The largest solar power plant of its type in the world, promoted as a turning point in green energy, isn&#8217;t producing the expected energy and one of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn&#8217;t shining as often as expected. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Huge solar plant lags in early production

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned MacGillivray's Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert. Workers at a state-of-the-art new solar plant have a word for the birds that fly over the plant’s five-mile field of mirrors, “streamers,” for the puff of smoke as the birds ignite in mid-air and fall singed to the ground. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN LOCHER - Associated Press

Some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each about 7 feet high and 10 feet wide, reflect sunlight to boilers that sit on 459-foot towers. The sun's power is used to heat water in the boilers' tubes and make steam, which in turn drives turbines to create electricity Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 in Primm, Nev. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, will be opened formally Thursday after years of regulatory and legal tangles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) **FILE**

Huge thermal plant opens as solar industry grows

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and BRIAN SKOLOFF - Associated Press