Energy Minister Moshe Shahal left on a week-long visit to the U.S. Monday during which he will dedicate the second solar energy plant built in southern California by an Israeli firm for a local electric utility. He is also scheduled to discuss American oil prospecting in Israel with U.S. Energy Secretary John Herrington and with Armand Hammer, head of Continental Petroleum.
The solar station Shahal will visit was built by Luz, an Israeli firm. It cost $90 million and 50 percent of the material that went into its construction was imported from Israel. Shahal will take part in negotiations to export an even larger Israel-made solar energy plant, to cost about $120 million, to a South American country.
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