CHANGE: Once touted as a clean-energy blueprint, Nevada solar plant sells for cents on the dollar.

A twice-bankrupt solar power plant in Nevada that was backed by the federal government has been sold for a fraction of what it cost to build.

Sons of Liberty Construction purchased the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant near Tonopah for $7 million. The sale closed this summer, federal court records show.

Overall, it cost more than $1 billion to build the massive energy complex and place in service, according to a court filing from a project lender.

Crescent Dunes, located some 230 miles northwest of Las Vegas, landed a $737 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration. It was touted as a first-of-its-kind facility that, by heating molten salt and generating high-pressure steam, would produce enough electricity for tens of thousands of homes in Nevada.

All told, it was seen as a blueprint for helping countries “around the world use clean, affordable electricity,” the U.S. Department of Energy once declared.

I for one am totally shocked that a regime that thought nothing of bragging that “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket,” and “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” could fund a debacle this bad.