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Israel's Largest Solar Farm Inaugurated

A 50 kilowatt grid connected rooftop solar farm has been brought online in the
town of Qazrin in Northern Israel, the largest solar power plant in Israel
today.
Installed by Israeli renewable energy company, Solar
IT and comprising of Suntech
solar panels, the farm will produce approximately 85,000 kilowatt hours of
clean, renewable electricity annually. A larger solar farm, also powered by
Suntech solar panels, is already in the works in Southern Israel.
Israeli National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer recently
announced plans to produce 20 percent of Israel's electricity via renewable
energy resources by 2020 and in the last twelve months, Israel has tripled the
budgets allocated to alternative energy initiatives and assigned greater
resources for support of renewable
energy sources.
The Israeli government earlier this year also announced tenders for two solar
thermal power plants, each with an approximate installed capacity of between
80 megawatts and 125 megawatts, plus a solar farm with an approximate
installed capacity of 15 megawatts; with option to increase by an additional 15
megawatts.
Interest in solar power in Israel has been additionally spurred along through
the introduction of feed
in tariffs, which pay home and industrial customers the current equivalent
of AUD 76c per kilowatt hour of electricity produced. Household grid
connected solar power systems covered under the initiative are limited in
size to 15 kW and business plants are limited to 50 kW.
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