Israel plans adding 800 MW/3,200 GWh of energy storage

• The Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure on Tuesday provided a national strategy imagining the release of 800 MW/3,200 MWh of energy storage capacity, consisting of the country's first large-scale storage unit.

The proposal covers the building of 4 200-MW/800-MWh facilities, to be mounted in phases according to the needs of the system and readied to utilise different storage space technologies. The 4 units will certainly store electrical energy generated by renewable resource plants located in the Jezreel Valley, the Spring Valley and in northern Israel as a whole. In addition, they will enable the transmission of electrical power to demand centres throughout top hours.

The plan was removed by Israel's National Planning Council as well as will be brought for authorization by the government.

Last year, Israel's Ministry of Atmosphere launched a roadmap to make it possible for the nation to produce 40% of its power from renewable resource resources by 2030. It after that stated that in order to reach the objective, Israel needs to install concerning 20 GW of solar combined with 5.5 GW of storage capacity. The country in April revealed a reform that aims to promote renewable resource generation by giving incentives for the production and also storage space of electricity.