Solar energy from Negev desert, Israel: Assessment of power fluctuations for future PV fleet

The Role of Photovoltaics in Energy Transition ‐ Assessing the Prospects for a Regime Shift

“…While the main positive aspects in undertaking such a transition relate to social and economic factors, the respective challenges appear to be of a technical nature. This is in line with previous research (e.g., Halász andMalachi 2014, Khan andPervaiz 2013). The most prominent weakness is the difficulty of providing suitable storage of PV electricity, especially at the household level.…”

Assessing distributional effects of carbon pricing in Israel

“…Contrarily, using revenues from carbon pricing to limit envisaged increases of electricity prices has comparatively progressive implications, since poorer households spend a larger share of total expenditures on electricity than richer households do. On the supply-side, a carbon price in Israel would provide incentives to shift electricity generation from coal-fired power plants, which accounted for 28% of Israeli electricity generation in 2020 (IEA, 2021), to gas-fired turbines (65%, respectively) or to low-carbon electricity generation technology, such as solar power, for which Israel has ample potential (Navon et al, 2020;Halász and Malachi, 2014). Nevertheless, capping electricity prices on the supply-side, i.e., in firms and households, does not induce an economic stimulus for strengthening energy efficiency of consumption.…”

Scientific cooperation between Italy and Israel: A perspective looking to the future

“…In brief, Israel could meet all its electricity needs through solar energy by installing utility scale PV plants in a tiny fraction of the Negev desert (where the average annual global horizontal radiation is above 2000 kWh m −2 year − 1 ), 21 and even less when all buildings will be retrofitted with solar PV modules connected to new generation batteries, a field of research that is ideally suited to be advanced along with Italy, the country with the world's highest stake of PV energy in the energy mix (7.3% of 310 TWh demand in 2016).…”