Electric company produces record amount of green energy
The production capacity was 1,326 megawatts, accounting for 19.3% of the total energy production.
By TZVI JOFFREThe Knesset’s rooftop solar panels – part of the Green Knesset Project – are seen, March 29(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
At 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the Israeli Electric Company announced that they had broken their all-time record for energy produced from renewable resources, Ynet reported.The production capacity, meaning the maximum electric output under the specific conditions at that moment, was 1,326 megawatts, accounting for 19.3% of the total energy production.Most of the energy (82%) was produced from photovoltaic solar energy, while 17% was produced by thermal solar power and 1% was produced by bio gas power.The previous record was recorded on Feb. 2, 2019 with a production capacity of 1,295 megawatts, accounting for 16.4% of the total energy production.
