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Article: Israel: Afcon to build wind farm on Gilboa.
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- Article date:
- September 2, 2008
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Byline: pinto03
Mountaintops are certainly windy, and Shlomo Shmeltzer's Afcon Industries plans to take make hay while the gusts rage. Afcon is in advanced discussions to build a wind turbine farm on the famed Gilboa mountains in the lower Galilee.
General terms of agreement have been reached with the kibbutzim Degania, Ma'aleh Gilboa and Beit Zera, to build 30 wind turbines on two sites on land belonging to the agricultural collectives. The sites are on Ramat Sirin, west of Lake Kinneret, and on the Gilboa mountain ridge. The project may cost as much as $70 ...