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Eliphaz

Solar power plant in Southern District, Israel. Approximate location 29.792, 35.032.

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Eliphaz is a 7 MW solar power plant in Southern District, Israel. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,978 homes (estimated). It ranks #42 of 59 Israel power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 16.2% of Israel's electricity; the national grid averages 493 gCO₂/kWh (16.9% low-carbon) (2025).

7MW installed capacity
2,978homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0061888.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Israel

Ashalim Sun: 121 MW121Ashalim SunHaluziot: 55 MW55HaluziotZmorot: 50 MW50ZmorotKibbutz Ketura: 40 MW40Kibbutz Ke…Ramat Hovav Solar Power Plant: 38 MW38Ramat Hova…Ashalim PV: 30 MW30Ashalim PVNevatim: 18 MW18NevatimNevatim 3: 18 MW18Nevatim 3

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

20.1°Cannual mean temp
778heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,546cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
500 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 1.2% at warm-season highs here (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 #20 largest solar power plant of 37 in Israel by capacity.

Israel has 37 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 571 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 29.792, 35.032 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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