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Ashalim Power Station

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Ashalim Power Station (2022)
Ashalim Power Station (2022)

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 megawatt parabolic trough plant with 4.5 hours of thermal energy storage. The Ashalim Plot B (Megalim) hosts a solar power tower. It has an installed capacity of 121 megawatts, concentrating 50,600 computer-controlled heliostats enough to power 120,000 homes. Electricity production commenced in September 2019, producing 320 GWhr of energy per year. The project was a joint venture between Brightsource and Alstom. The station was the tallest solar power tower in the world at a height of 260 meters including the boiler but was recently surpassed by the 262.44-meter-tall (861.0 ft) solar power tower at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Ashalim Plot C is a 30 MW photovoltaic plant, commissioned in 2018, one year before the CSP plants. In 2019 EDF Renewables won a tender for another NIS 150 ($43) million PV plant at a record low price of 8.68 agorot (3 cents) per kilowatt hour.

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Ashalim Power Station
211, Ramat Negev Regional Council

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N 30.9625 ° E 34.73 °
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Ramat Negev Regional Council
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Ashalim Power Station (2022)
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Naẖal HaRo'a (Hebrew: נחל הרועה, lit. 'Shepherd's Wadi', with the word for "shepherd" being in its feminine form) is a wadi in the northern Negev Mountains, from the tributaries of Nahal HaBesor. Along its length are impressive remains of ancient Nabatean agriculture and a water plant by means of which the stream crosses Kemer Halukim. One of its tributaries is Nahal Halukim (lit. 'Pebbles Wadi' or 'Cobbles Wadi'); the ancient name of the stream was "Wadi Halikom", after the riverbed pebbles (Hebrew: חלוקי נחל, ẖalukei naẖal) whose name has been preserved in Kemer Halukim. The wadi's name (meaning "Shepherd's Wadi" or "Shepherd's Creek"), along with the nearby Shepherd's Parking (חניון הרועה, H̱anyon HaRo'a), was given in memory of Barbara Proper (1930–1952), who was murdered on the spot by Bedouins from the area. Barbara Proper was born in Germany, to a Jewish mother. She immigrated to Israel and grew up in Jerusalem, as an adopted daughter of Johanna and Dr. Emmanuel Proper. The Shepherd's Ruins (חורבת הרועה, H̱urbat HaRo'a), or the Shepherd's Site (אתר הרועה, Atar HaRo'a), is an archaeological site located in the Negev Mountains, about 5 km northeast of kibbutz Sde Boker, near the road from there to Yeruham, at 30°54′28″N 34°51′12″E. The site is located on a hill that dominates an ancient road along Nahal HaRo'a, which is 10 m above its surroundings, and 550 m above sea level.