Category: Electricity

A tender will be published in June 2009 for a renewable energy park to be established in Timna in the Eilot regional council area. The tender will offer 3 areas each of about 1,000 sq km on which a renewable power station can be established ranging from 50-75 MW

Electricity suppliers will offer a contract based on a range of different tariffs, from a single-rate tariff with a single price for each unit of electricity used, through two-rate (different unit rates for day and night) to multi-rate seasonal time of day (STOD) tariffs which could have up to several different unit rates. In Israel there are 9 such rates

The rate base is a group of basic assumptions used to calculate the long-term price of electricity production, conduction and delivery, and serves as the foundation for setting the electricity tariff. This includes a basket of normative costs for each branch of the electricity sector that the electricity tariff is supposed to cover. For example, the cost of the construction of a power station and the cost of fuels (for the generation sector); the cost for the construction of the grid (for the transmission sector) or the cost of setting up a transformation station and services offered to the public (for the distribution sector). The rate base was first set in Israel by the Public Utility Authority-Electricity in 1997 for 5 years and was then updated in 2002. In February 2010, the PUA approved the new tariff structure for the years 2010-2014, which will include a 10% reduction in electricity tariff for households and a 16.3% reduction for industrial users

IEC’s cluster hour tariff is divided into 9 different tariffs according to three seasons (winter, intermediate, summer) and three consumption groups of hours (peak, shoulder, offpeak). Each of these 9 groups is set a different electricity tariff by the PUA. The TOU tariff thus changes according to consumption curves unlike the other tariffs that remain constant

License for the management of the electricity dispatcher

Synchronization of the Facility tests to assure the synchronization capability of any power station are part of a power station’s Acceptance Tests, when a qualified tester working on behalf of the holder of a transmission license or the holder of a distribution license, as applicable, confirms that the facility meets all the conditions for feeding electrical energy from the facility into the electrical grid. In addition, the facility’s output has to be synchronized, routinely, also during its entire commercial operation lifetime, whenever it is shut down and restarted. Solar energy power stations, for example, are all peaking power stations, and are started and shut down daily

A particular type of substation where energy is routed either from different sources or to different customers. Facility equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches. The switches are selectively arranged to permit a circuit to be disconnected or to change the electric connection between the circuits