You ’re looking at an astonishingly huge and gorgeous solar energy plant life that ’s being built by Brightsource Energy , an American business firm , in the Negev desert . It looks like something out of Star Trek , but it ’s actually from Earth ’s near future .
According to Inhabitat :
TheAshalim power plantwill be located in the Negev desert near Kibbutz Ashalim south of the city of Be’er Sheva , and when it ’s completed in 2016 it will be the biggest solar power station in Israel with enough capability to power 40,000 homes . The new solar place is being make grow by Megalim Solar Power — a joint speculation between U.S.-based solar power companyBrightsource Energyand French business leader and transport companyAlstom . . .
The BrightSource - Alstom Megalim plant is one of three task at the Ashalim internet site , which will generate 250 MW of electrical energy at full electrical capacity – that ’s enough to shroud 2.5 pct of Israeli energy ingestion . When all three projects are online , Ashalim will become the fifth largest solar power place in the public .
show more , and see more images , at Inhabitat .
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