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The plant will be located near the southern community of Ashalim and is set to be online by 2027. EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of the French state energy company EDF, has won an Israeli Government tender to build and operate a new 100MW solar plant. The subsidiary submitted a bid of NIS0.07/kWh ($0.019), the lowest price ever recorded in an energy tender in Israel. The previous lowest record had also been submitted by EDF for a 40MW solar power plant in Ashalim, a small settlement in the Negev Desert in the south of Israel. The Ashalim plant currently sells power to the grid at a tariff of NIS0.08/kWh. “The tender results demonstrate that emission reduction and achieving renewable energy goals go hand in hand with lowering electricity prices, which is great news for Israeli citizens,” said Yehli Rotenburg, the accountant general of Israel. Energy Ministry Director General Yossi Dayan said that the results of the tender show that renewable energy can help lower electricity production costs, which in turn will help lower the cost of living in Israel. |
