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Eliat

Gas power plant in Southern District, Israel. Approximate location 29.5611, 34.9517.

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Eliat is a 35 MW gas power plant in Southern District, Israel. It is operated by Israel Electric corporation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 39,420 homes (estimated). It ranks #25 of 59 Israel power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 79.7% of Israel's electricity; the national grid averages 493 gCO₂/kWh (16.9% low-carbon) (2025).

35MW installed capacity
39,420homes powered (est.)
1996commissioned (~30 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1008373.

~55,188 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

12,864passenger cars driven for a year
7,197homes' yearly energy use
919,800tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Israel

Eshkol: 1,432 MW1kEshkolHagit: 1,255 MW1kHagitRamat Hovav: 1,067 MW1kRamat HovavDorad: 840 MW840DoradTzafit (Dalia): 835 MW835Tzafit (Da…Gezer: 744 MW744GezerHaifa (CCGT): 720 MW720Haifa (CCG…Reading: 428 MW428Reading

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Israel Electric corporation. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.0°Cannual mean temp
783heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,540cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
553 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 10 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 15 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 24 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 26 °CSO: 22 °CON: 16 °CND: 11 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 68% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 24/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

A gas turbine here also runs ~4% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #18 largest gas power plant of 18 in Israel by capacity.

Israel has 18 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 9,213 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 29.5611, 34.9517 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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