Israel shifts 300MW to PV as wind stalls due to military radar fears

This shopping mall rooftop installation is a recent example of PV growth in Israel

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By Karl-Erik Stromsta London

 Monday, December 03 2012

Updated: Friday, January 04 2013

The Israeli government has approved a plan to transfer 300MW of planned wind capacity to the PV sector, in a bid to make up for lost ground on the way to its renewables targets.

The decision, approved by the relevant ministerial committee, is a serious blow to Israel’s nascent utility-scale wind sector, for which a feed-in tariff (FIT) was first approved last year with a total cap of 800MW.

Israeli wind developers have been hamstrung by radar-related objections lodged by the Defence Ministry.

In response, Uzi Landau – the country’s pro-renewables minister of energy and water – recently suggested opening up 300MW of the 800MW allocated for wind to the PV sector, which has taken off in the past year and is able to obtain building and…

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