The Israel Electric Corporation, as a supplier of a critical national service, is obliged to operate according to strict operating criteria (it has an entire book called the Book of Criteria). When the power market was opened a few years ago to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) the issue of criteria regarding financing their activity was adressed. See below:

In addition, as part of the policy to encourage the entry of private electricity producers, in July 2009, the Electricity Authority published an update to its decision on the issue of the charge rate arrangements supporting financing for the private electricity producers. The decision was intended to provide a safety net to private electricity producers and serves as an additional link in the governmental operation to create conditions to promote private entrepreneurship in the Electricity Sector. Within the framework of this decision, the Electricity Authority has established....

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