The company opened its first plant at Kibbutz Samar in the Arava Desert near Eilat in June 2009.
The 2,000sqm facilities are capable of supplying 100kw of electricity per hour to power 60 to 80 homes while 170kw of heat energy released as a byproduct to power an adjacent desalination facility.
The hybrid system operates on a solar-only mode, fuel-only mode or a combination of the two.
Each of the 52 panels called heliostats can track motion of the sun along two axes and then directs the sun’s light to a 35-meter-high tower.
The tower houses a solar receiver as well as a gas turbine designed by the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The receiver uses the sun’s rays to heat the air to 1,000 degrees Celsius and directs the thermal energy into the turbine, which converts it into electricity, reports the Jerusalem Post.
