After 6 long years of preparation, the 40-megawatt Ketura Solar Field in Israel has started flowing electricity into the country's national grid. “There is of course a sensation of success and satisfaction on this celebratory day, which is ever clouded by the fact that we have developed numerous other medium and large fields that have been advanced to the stage of eligibility of tariff permit and have been sitting collecting dust for years,” he said. The solar field is located on a plateau overlooking Lake Kinneret, and was built by Israeli company SolarCity to power its new headquarters near Tel Aviv. Israel is also planning to begin operations on two additional solar fields, which have a combined outage of 105-megawatts, as the government pushes to achieve its 2020 goal of supplying 10% of the country's electricity through renewable energy.
After 6 long years of preparation, the 40-megawatt Ketura Solar Field in Israel has started flowing electricity into the country's national grid. The solar field is located on a plateau overlooking Lake Kinneret, and was built by Israeli company SolarCity to power its new headquarters near Tel Aviv. Israel is also planning to begin operations on two additional solar fields, which have a combined outage of 105-megawatts, as the government pushes to achieve its 2020 goal of supplying 10% of the country's electricity through renewable energy.