Israel shortlists bidders in 300-MW solar tender with storage

Israel has shortlisted 11 bidders in a tender for the construction and operation of a 300-MW solar park with a co-located battery storage facility in the Negev desert.

The competition attracted strong interest and an “unprecedented” number of participants, the energy ministry said on Thursday.

The list of the pre-qualified bidders includes a tie-up of Israeli solar developer Solgreen and Norway’s Scatec, Israel-based real estate investment trust Keystone and Spanish solar firm Solarpack, as well as French energy giant EDF. The full list is available on the energy ministry’s website.

The tender, which was opened in January last year, calls for the construction of a solar farm near the city of Dimona in Israel’s Southern District. The plant is due to be completed by the end of 2024, becoming the largest one of its kind in the country. It will be coupled with a battery storage system with an unspecified capacity.

At the start of 2021, Israel awarded 608.95 MW of projects in its second tender for solar-plus-storage capacity at a final tariff of ILS 0.1745 (USD 0.0525/EUR 0.0449) per kWh.

(ILS 1.0 = USD 0.309/EUR 0.264)

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