After 6 long years of preparation, the 40-megawatt Ketura Solar Field in Kibbutz Ketura has started flowing electricity into the country's national grid. The field is “at present, the largest solar installation in Israel,” he added. The field contains 140,343 solar panels which span about 270 megawatts of land in the southern Arava . Israel is also planning to begin operations on 140,343 additional solar fields, which have a combined outage of 105-megawatts, as the government pushes to achieve its 2020 goal of supplying 30 percent of the country's electricity through renewable energy.
After 6 long years of preparation, the 40-megawatt Ketura Solar Field in Kibbutz Ketura has started flowing electricity into the country's national grid. The field contains 140,343 solar panels which span about 270 megawatts of land in the southern Arava . Israel is also planning to begin operations on 140,343 additional solar fields, which have a combined outage of 105-megawatts, as the government pushes to achieve its 2020 goal of supplying 30 percent of the country's electricity through renewable energy.