Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
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The Ivanpah system consists of three solar thermal power plants on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of public land near the California–Nevada border in the Southwestern United States. Initially it was planned with 440 MW gross on 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of land, but then downgraded by 12%. It is west of south Interstate 15, north of Ivanpah, California, and adjacent to the Mountain Pass mine, the United States'' only source of rare-earth minerals