“An important step to promote renewable energy in Israel’s sovereign and economic waters”
Tel Aviv: In what it called a “historic move to advance renewable energy in Israel‘s economic and sovereign waters.”
A strategic environmental survey (SES) for the deployment of renewable energy technologies at sea and technologies that support Israel’s objectives for the promotion and diversification of renewable energies and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector is presently being offered by Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.
Energy generation from ocean waves, currents, wind, and sun, as well as green hydrogen production, energy storage, heat exchange, biomass growth, and carbon fixation, are some of the technologies under investigation.
Given the State of Israel’s high land density, the marine region is another opportunity for developing and supporting renewable energy systems, the Ministry noted.
Furthermore, new energy technologies that cannot be used on land can be tested and promoted by the sea. For example, research is being done on the use of ocean currents and waves to generate energy and electricity, which could help diversify and decentralize renewable energy systems and improve Israel’s energy security.
Based on international instructions, OECD nations must conduct a Strategic Environmental Survey (SES) in order to design policies for the sustainable development of natural resources, especially in the marine sector. In the past, Israel has also carried out Strategic Environmental Surveys (SES) for the purpose of exploring for and producing natural gas offshore.
