The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, built in 2014 as a rare type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight, has long been criticized for causing birds to spontaneously combust and kill them with concentrated sunlight, and announced that it would close part of the facility. The Ivanpah Solar Power Plant, built in 2014 as a rare type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight, has long been criticized for causing birds to spontaneously combust and kill them with concentrated sunlight, and announced that it would close part of the facility. A rare and unusual type of solar power plant that concentrates sunlight in California is accidentally killing up to 6,000 birds every year, with staff reporting that the birds keep flying into its concentrated beams of sunlight, and spontaneously bursting into flames. The problem has been going on. While solar power generation is an environmentally friendly, clean energy source that reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases, it can also be criticized for its impact on the surrounding nature and ecosystems. Unlike fossil fuels, it doesn't produce greenhouse gas emissions, and it taps into a resource that seems limitless—the sun. In February 2014, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System debuted in California's Mojave Desert, hailed at the time as the world's largest solar thermal power plant. The impact of a solar facility on birds hinges entirely on whether it uses photovoltaic panels or concentrated solar power.
