Opened in 2019, Ashalim Power Station is a concentrated solar power station in the Negev Desert, south of the district city of Be’er Sheva in Israel. The station uses 56,000 solar panels called heliostats arranged around a tower to reflect sunlight onto the pinnacle. The computer-controlled heliostats follow the sun during the day.
Standing 260 meters tall, the Ashalim is the tallest solar power station in the world.
The power station combines solar thermal and photovoltaic energy with natural gas, producing 320 gigawatt hours of energy per year. In other words, the system can supply energy to power 120,000 homes, about five percent of the houses in Israel.
