First Solar Power Station in Israel is Up and Running
In the department of “How has this not already happened?”, Haaretz reports that Israel’s first solar power station is now functioning. The 50 kW solar array is on a farm in the Negev, and will be hooked up to the national power grid in two weeks.
The reason for the long wait? Israel’s state solar incentives just kicked in on July 1st. They allow home and industrial customers to receive NIS 2.01 per kWh for electricity produced. Household power plants are limited to 15 kW, and business plants are limited to 50 kW.
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The new solar station, built by Moshe Tenne, consists of thin-film solar panels on a cowshed roof and an array of multicrystal silicon solar cells that are spread out over the farmland.
Tenne also plans to build small wind turbines on his property even though wind power incentives aren’t yet in effect.
Hopefully, more homes and businesses will follow Tenne’s lead—considering Israel’s abundant sunshine, it would be a shame if they don’t.
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This could be a huge boom in Israel. Who could benefit more then them to be energy self sufficient. Security is a bigger issue there than we Americans realize. Energy grids are very vulnerable. I wonder why we don’t hear that side of it more often.
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