The Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures, which is also responsible for the energy sector, decided on November 2001 to introduce to the Israel electricity market until 2005 the CSP as a strategic ingredient, with a minimal power unit of 100 MWe. The Director General of the Ministry for National Infrastructure had expressed the full support of his Ministry for the GMI Action Proposal and asked his staff to prepare a first draft endorsement to be signed by his Minister, Mr. Joseph Parietzky, in time for the Renewables 2004.

 A feasibility study, identifying necessary incentive premiums for CSP, was completed in late 2003 and is under review by the Israel Public Utilities Authority for formulation of an adequate feed-in law. Recent Israeli information suggest, that a national CSP program is currently underway, encompassing about 500 MW of CSP capacity by 2010 and another 1,000 MW by 2015. A site for the first 100MW has finally been selected and is now being approved. It provides space for up to 500MW.
Further Details... A latest update was given by the Israeli Ministry for National Infrastructures at the Berlin Conference on June 19-20.

Further information:

• Solar Gas Turbine with Tower Reflector (CONSOLAR Project)

• MCPV–Distributed Solar Power generation using Miniature Concentrating Photovoltaic systems