Ashalim power station

The Ashalim power station is a concentrated solar power station in the Negev desert near the community settlement of Ashalim, south of the district city of Be'er Sheva in Israel. It consists of three plots with three different technologies through which the station combines 3 kinds of energy: solar thermal energy, photovoltaic energy, and natural gas. Ashalim Plot A (Negev Energy) is a 121 megawatt parabolic trough plant with 4.5 hours of thermal energy storage. The Ashalim Plot B (Megalim) hosts a solar power tower. It has an installed capacity of 121 megawatts, concentrating 50,600 computer-controlled heliostats enough to power 120,000 homes. Electricity production commenced in September 2019, producing 320 GWhr of energy per year. The project was a joint venture between Brightsource and Alstom. The station was the tallest solar power tower in the world at a height of 260 meters including the boiler but was recently surpassed by the 262.44-meter-tall (861.0 ft) solar power tower at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Ashalim Plot C is a 30 MW photovoltaic plant, commissioned in 2018, one year before the CSP plants. In 2019 EDF Renewables won a tender for another NIS 150 ($43) million PV plant at a record low price of 8.68 agorot (3 cents) per kilowatt hour.

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