Recent data show that in 2024 Israel added 900 MW to PV capacity of solar energy.
According to information published by the Israeli electricity authority, the country installed 900 MW photovoltaic capacity and 11 MW Biogascapacity last year. This is approximately 200 MW less than the 1.1 GW new PV capacity installed in 2023.
The official reports of Israel miss details about the various segments of the Zonnemarkt, but Eitan Parnass, founder and director of Israel’s Green Energy Association, provided PV -Magazine With additional information.
Parnass noticed a complete switch from offered PV projects to photovoltaic trade and energy storage projects that work via PPAs. This segment of the market brought Israel’s sun growth in 2024 and will continue to do so in the coming years, Parnass argued.
Agrivoltaics is also an emerging segment of the Israeli solar market, he added. “There is already a first operational project, consisting of 10 MW PV and 40 MWh of storage, and we expect that more commercial projects will come forward in the next two to three years,” Parnass noted. “Israel is known for its Agritech, so Agrivoltaics is embraced here by the government and also farmers.”
There are no public data that shows how much solar energy is installed on the roof in the country. However, Parnass estimates that more than 60% of the installed PV capacity of Israel uses double, which means that solar energy has co-location with another land use, while about 40% consists of systems mounted on the ground.
Residential photovoltaisies represent the tendency to represent a small fraction of the new solar capacity of each year, but the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has recently announced a 100,000 solar roof program that will add 1.6 GW Zonne -Energie by 2030.
Asked if Israel can be higher than approximately 1 GW new solar and year in the future, Parnass noted that the most important obstacle to make this happen is the electricity grid of the country, which he said it should expand considerably and last a few years. He added that energy storage is an essential problem in Israel and emphasized the country that embraced the storage technologies as a potential solution for the further growth of renewable energy sources.
Israel is not an electricity connection with its neighboring countries and is considered a so -called ‘Energy Island’. In recent years, the country has shown interest in linking its national grid to the electricity networks of Cyprus and Greece via the ‘Great Sea -Interconnector‘Substitute line.
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