The Ashalim power station is a concentrated solar power station in the Negev desert near the community settlement of Ashalim, south of the district city of Be'er Sheva in Israel. It consists of three plots with three different technologies through which the station combines 3 kinds of energy: solar thermal energy, photovoltaic energy, and natural gas. Ashalim Plot A (Negev Energy) is a 121. CountryLocationOfficial nameAshalim Solar Thermal Power StationStatusOperationalReasons for building the power stationAccording to a press release of the, the establishment has several motivations: 1. Economic motivation: reducing imports thus balancing the trade and releasing foreign curr. . The 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 – almost a factor of 9 compared to the PV stations ten. . • • •.
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