Featured in FUTURE PV – 09-2014

Israel’s clean energy future

Israel: Having deployed the highest number of PV installations in the Middle East, expectations are high that Israel will soon drive the region’s solar PV renaissance. pv magazine asks whether international expectations of rapidly developing solar PV are well grounded or overestimated. 

Israel’s renewable energy (RE) growth has been primarily driven by two government actions: The decision taken in January 2009 to generate 10% of its electricity from RE sources by 2020; and the ratification of that goal in July 2011 in setting specific quotas for installations for each technology separately. The Public Utilities Authority (PUA), Israel’s …

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