Ashalim Power Station
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The Ashalim power station is a
Ashalim Plot A (Negev Energy) is a 121 megawatt parabolic trough plant with 4.5 hours of thermal energy storage.[3][4]
The Ashalim Plot B (Megalim) hosts a solar power tower. It has an installed capacity of 121 megawatts,[5] concentrating 50,600 computer-controlled heliostats enough to power 120,000 homes. Electricity production commenced in September 2019,[3] producing 320 GWhr of energy per year.[6] 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[7] but was recently surpassed by the 262.44 meter tall solar power tower at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.[8]
Ashalim Plot C is a 30MW photovoltaic plant, commissioned in 2018, one year before the CSP plants.[9]
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.[10]
Reasons for building the power station
According to a press release of the
- Economic motivation: reducing imports thus balancing the trade and releasing foreign currency.
- Political motivation: reducing strategic dependence on foreign energy sources.
- Environmental motivation: reducing contamination levels.
- Scientific motivation: pushing forward local technology and science, adapting new technologies from abroad.
Cost concerns
The concentrated solar power project in Ashalim was announced in 2008 and awarded in a competitive auction 2012 at NIS0.79 ($0.22) per kilowatt hour for Plot B [11] - that is almost a factor of 9 compared to the PV stations tendered in 2019 at the same spot (see above). Similarly, the project on Plot A at NIS 0.76 per kWh, but including 4.5 hours of molten salt storage,[12] delivers four times more expensive power than the results of tenders for solar plus 4 hours of storage awarded at the beginning of 2021 at NIS0.17/kWh ($0.054) to be delivered by 2023.[13]
See also
References
- ^ BrightSource and Alstom win tender for 121 Megawatt solar thermal power plant in Israel
- ^ "Emissions free and pollution free: Israel unveils massive solar power plant". Ynetnews. 2019-10-19. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- ^ a b "Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station inaugurated in Israel". Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ^ "Negev Energy – Negev Energy English site". Archived from the original on 2021-02-22.
- ^ Bright Source Energy - Ashalim
- ^ "Ashalim Power Station, Israel" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
- ^ Scharf, Isaac (January 5, 2017). "Israel harnessing sunshine with world's tallest solar tower". The Times of Israel. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
- ^ "World's Tallest Concentrated Solar Power Tower installed". 13 June 2020.
- ^ "BELECTRIC opens new PV plant in the Israeli desert ahead of schedule". 30 January 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22.
- ^ "EDF Renewables wins tender to build solar plant, sets new low in prices". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2021-02-22.
- ^ "BrightSource and Alstom win tender for 121 Megawatt solar thermal power plant in Israel".
- ^ "Noy Fund & TSK Group to Replace Abengoa in Shikun & Binui's Ashalim Thermo-Solar Power Plant Project" (Press release).
- ^ "החלטה מס' (59601) - תוצאות הליך תחרותי מס' 2 לקביעת תעריף לייצור חשמל בטכנולוגיה פוטו-וולטאית בשילוב קיבולת אגירה, למתקנים המחוברים לרשת החלוקה | מספר החלטה 59601".