Coal power station belonging to IEC situated in Hadera and situated on 1,200 dunam of land. One of the country’s two largest coal power stations with an installed capacity of 2,590 MW, which was constructed at a cost of $3 billion and which represents 25% of Israel’s installed generation capacity and is composed of two large coal stations. The plant however provides up to 35% of the country’s electricity needs due to the relative cheap cost of operating this coal power station. The station was graded as the most polluting station in the country and in fact is responsible for 42% of the country’s emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.
1st August 2011 – MNI Minister Landau ordered that 4 of the 6 turbines be converted to natural gas with coal as back up