Featured in The Array Changers – 06-2015

On fertile ground

Palestine: With a nascent industry dependent on donor programs, no money for domestic incentive schemes, a lack of development land and seemingly intractable political problems, the prospects for solar in Palestine seem grim. But hope springs eternal, as one developer told pv magazines Max Hall in the West Bank.

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pv magazine

02 Jun 2015

In a Palestinian solar market chiefly driven by NGOs and other third parties, the 2013 suspension of the EU-funded Palestine Solar Initiative (PSI) was a grievous blow.Under the terms of the 2011 scheme, 1,000 household solar systems would be installed in the Occupied Territories by homeowners who would pay back the costs by being paid above …

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