The Renewable Energy Development site has reported on the invitation for tenders by the Israeli government for the planned 250MW solar power plant that has been talked about for the past couple of years. The Negev Desert is the intended site and, by the looks of things, the actual capacity of the power plant could fall anywhere between 160 – 250MW and still meet with the tender pre-requisites.
The expectation is that the new solar power plant in Israel will be a concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plant, but the exact technology that will be used will be determined by the company whose tender offer is successful.
The new project will be a further significant step forward in the use of renewable energy sources to produce power with the size of this project sitting fairly close to the top in terms of CSP plants in terms of electricity capacity.
