renewable energy

European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice President Gelsomina Vigliotti (right) with Alan Tavir, CEO of IDE Technologies Group and European Union Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev announce EIB support for Western Galilee desalination project, June 25, 2023. (Courtesy)

EU financial arm to invest €900m in Israel, including Western Galilee desalination

European Investment Bank allocates €150 million for water facility plus €500m in Bank Leumi credit to encourage green business projects, and assesses €250m for Tel Aviv light rail

June 25, 2023, 9:28 pm

EU financial arm to invest €900m in Israel, including Western Galilee desalination

European Investment Bank allocates €150 million for water facility plus €500m in Bank Leumi credit to encourage green business projects, and assesses €250m for Tel Aviv light rail

By Sharon Wrobel

Druze community members protest against the construction of a new wind farm in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

June 22, 2023, 2:58 pm

Ben Gvir overrules police on freezing wind farm project, despite riots – reports

Far-right minister vows work will continue despite two days of protests, violence; police chief reportedly wanted contentious work paused until after next week’s Eid al-Adha

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

June 21, 2023, 6:09 pm

Evogene subsidiary nabs $9.1m deal for supply of castor seeds for biofuel production

Casterra signs agreement with top 10 oil and gas company to sell its high-yielding castor bean seeds to be cultivated in Africa

By Sharon Wrobel

Tear gas fumes fill the air as members of the Druze community gather with their flags in a protest against an Israeli wind turbine project near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on June 21, 2023. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP)

June 21, 2023, 3:59 pm

4 Druze seriously injured, 12 cops hurt in massive riots against Golan wind farm

Official warns of ‘intifada’ amid anger at project near farmland; police stress program is legal; protesters said to use live fire, firebombs to try and overrun police position

By Michael Bachner

Enlight Renewable Energy's Genesis Wind project on the Golan Heights in northern Israel, June 2023. (Yehuda Weinberg)

June 14, 2023, 1:34 am

Renewable energy company starts testing first of 39 wind turbines on Golan Heights

Genesis Wind, due to become operational in September, will be country’s biggest renewable energy provider, supplying sufficient green energy to power 70,000 homes a year

By Sue Surkes

For Illustation: View of solar panels set up in the Negev desert, June 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

June 7, 2023, 12:42 pm

Israel to triple amount of open space dedicated to solar energy production

National Planning and Building Council okays Energy Ministry request for 10,000 more acres to be used for renewable electricity production; Environment Ministry opposes

By ToI Staff

Brenmiller Energy is helping industry to transition from global warming fossil fuels to cleaner energy by offering a way to store renewable energy in the form of heat in crushed rocks. (Brenmiller Energy)

May 3, 2023, 11:20 pm

Israeli green thermal storage company opens first factory, in Dimona

Built with EU support, plant aims to produce systems capable of holding four gigawatts of clean energy by end of the year

By Sue Surkes

Zephyrus Wing Energies Ltd.'s management team opens trade at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange together with TASE officials, April 23, 2023. (Credit: Liat Mandel)

April 23, 2023, 7:38 pm

Renewable energy firm opens trade on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange after IPO

Zephyrus Wing Energies is the first company to list on the TASE since August; raises NIS 145 million at a company valuation of NIS 935 million

By Sharon Wrobel

Nofar Energy's first solar energy storage batteries at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel. (Nofar Energy)

April 16, 2023, 6:32 pm

Electricity Authority announces move to increase renewable energy production

Reform will incentivize people to store renewable energy and release it into grid during evenings and nights when space is available

By Sue Surkes

A photo taken on April 14, 2023 shows the nuclear power plant Isar in Essenbach near Landshut, southern Germany. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)

April 16, 2023, 3:19 am

‘End of an era’: Germany shuts down its last 3 nuclear reactors

Move was long awaited in a country wary of disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but environmentalists say Berlin is relying too much on coal, behind schedule on renewable energy

By Sebastien ASH

Left: Shingo Ueno, Executive Vice President and Head of Energy Innovation Initiative, Sumitomo Corporation. Right: Talmon Marco, CEO, H2Pro. (Courtesy, Sumitomo Corporation)

March 17, 2023, 8:56 am

Israeli startup to supply hydrogen tech to Japan’s Sumitomo Corp

Agreement, valued at $250 million, will see H2Pro electrolyzers used to produce hydrogen and green ammonia for agriculture, shipping, energy

By Sue Surkes

Solar panels. (lovelyday12, iStock at Getty Images)

December 6, 2022, 8:54 pm

Ministry: Israel must approve 54 policy measures to reach 2030 renewable energy goal

Energy Ministry director urges next government to make renewables a ‘national priority’; plans advanced for renewable energy storage, agro-voltaics

By Sue Surkes

Moundir Zniber of Gaia Energy (left) and Talmon Marco of H2Pro shake hands on an agreement at the Israel Pavilion at the UN COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 8, 2022. (Courtesy, H2Pro)

November 8, 2022, 11:37 pm

Israeli startup to supply Moroccan renewable energy developer with hydrogen power

Deal valued at potentially ‘hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more,’ will see H2Pro producing Technion-developed hydrogen electrolyzers at the ‘gigawatt scale’

By Sue Surkes

Construction materials at a Netanya supply site, August 2022 (Danielle Nagler)

September 16, 2022, 5:49 am

Israel belatedly looks to green construction for concrete fix to polluting buildings

Reducing carbon emissions is a national priority, but that means reinventing the way structures are built and occupied; several Israeli companies are innovating new solutions

By Danielle Nagler

Prime Minister Yair Lapid and staff from the Prime Minister's Office learn what relevant ministries are doing to prepare for climate change at the Kirya in Tel Aviv, on August 31, 2022. (Haim Zach, GPO)

August 31, 2022, 7:25 pm

Lapid, senior staff meet top officials to discuss climate crisis

Energy minister tells PM she will plan for cabinet approval on Sunday to ease regulations for solar panels, exempt renewable technologies from import tax

By Sue Surkes