Photo Credit: Arava Power
A French national electric company subsidiary hooked up the 134-acre solar field in the Arava in southern Israel Wednesday, making the solar farm the largest in national electric grid.
Arava Power jointly owns the solar field with the French company, EDF Énergies Nouvelles Israel.
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Planning for the solar field began six years ago, and constructing finally began seven months ago, more than year after financing was arranged.
The farm consists of 140,343 solar panels.
The French subsidiary in Israel also building another solar park and has wind power projects in the pipeline.
Solar energy provides only a tiny fraction of Israel’s electricity, but the long-term is that the sun will be the source for 27 percent of the country’s electric by 2050.
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