Israel’s national Public Utility Authority Electricity (PUA) has recently recieved letters of requests from eleven solar forms to construct a large solar power generation system in the areas near the Gaza Strip, locally known as the Gaza Envelope.
It is expected that by making use of solar thermal technology, the two of these large solar energy generating plants would provide 180 MW of electricity, and by utilizing large-scale photovoltaic installations with nine other solar firms will together yield nearly 500 MW of power.
According to the Globes business news site, the Public Utility Authority Electricity have already provided 25 conditional licenses to groups which are preparing to construct medium-sized solar energy facilities which could yield about 70 MW. And as shown by the Authority’s map these 25 conditional licenses out of the 87 are still being awarded to those medium-size installations which are to be constructed in the Gaza Strip. About 70 MW solar power will be genereted by the solar firms in the area, and this is more than 50 per cent of what is generated by the conditional licenses awarded so far.
Public Utility Authority Electricity’s licensing chief Moshe Sheetrit delivered that “We all hope that sooner or later the entire south of the country to be full of solar power firms.”