Featured in Looking forward – 08-2012

Solar kibbutzim

Israel: At this year’s CleanTech summit and exhibition, organized by Mashov Group in Tel Aviv, Israel’s PV industry looked forward to when PV electricity production will become competitive without subsidy.

When the Israeli government introduced a feed-in tariff (FIT) in the summer of 2008 to incentivize the small and mid-sized/commercial PV market, predictably it started a solar rush as installers, suppliers and other players descended to carve out a slice of the market. As a result of the FIT, grid-connected PV installations grew from 25 …

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