Belectric bags 88MW Israeli solar upgrade job

• Repowering for Halutziot plant includes installing 161,000 new modules, replacing electricals and adding a battery

Belectric has been picked to repower a solar plant in Israel for its customer Enlight to increase the Halutziot solar farm's capacity to 88MW from 55MW.

Replacement works have actually begun, as well as the construction works are anticipated to be finished by the second quarter of 2023.

Belectric will certainly additionally take on procedure and maintenance (O&M) solutions for the repowered project.

Halutziot solar farm is located in the Negev desert in Israel and was originally commissioned in 2015.

At the time of commissioning, it ended up being Israel's biggest PV plant.

Belectric's work entails changing the 180,000 existing modules with 161,000 new high capacity modules.

The retrofit works also consist of changing the inverters as well as transformers on site.

On top of that, a power storage system will certainly be installed, making Halutziot one of Israel's first hybrid projects integrating solar energy and battery storage.

It is also the first time that Belectric has actually signed an EPC contract with Enlight, an Israel-based investment firm and also vital gamer in the Israeli as well as global PV market.

Yaron Lado, Business Development Manager at BELECTRIC Israel, said: "We thank Enlight for picking us to lead this project, including the repowering works, major tools upgrade as well as storage system combination all while assuring minimal downtime for the project, connected to the high voltage grid.

" We are grateful for this vote of confidence, as well as are eagerly anticipating broadening our cooperation in future projects."