盡管走在太陽能技術的最前沿，太陽能應用在以色列并未廣泛流行。因此，以政府出臺了旨在改變這種狀況的新舉措。
    近日，以色列公用事業管理局已宣布了一項新倡議，推動該國太陽能發電量。周三，該管理局宣布，為提高太陽能發電量，政府愿意購買電力，政府將支付太陽能電力生產商1.55謝克爾（40美分）至2.04謝克爾（53美分）至）/每千瓦時。
    以色列政府以支付太陽能發電商入國家電網補貼的方式激勵本國可再生能源生產，從而限制權力機構購買其可支付的可再生能源量。
    數月前以色列國家基礎設施部長Uzi Landau宣布，到2020年以色列10%的能源需求將來自諸如風能和太陽能等可再生能源。為了達到這個目標，以色列必須安裝足夠的可再生能源基礎設施，生產4000兆瓦小時的電力。
    根據以色列國家基礎設施部的報告，目前以色列的三個主要能源來源是煤（69%），天然氣（23%）及石油（7%）。

    Despite being at the forefront of solar technology, solar power is not yet widespread in Israel. A new initiative aims to change that. 
    Israel’s Public Utilities Authority has announced a new initiative aimed at boosting the volume of solar power produced in the country.The authority announced on Wednesday that it would boost volume of solar power the government is willing to buy, while reducing by 25 percent the rate it would pay solar power producers from 2.04 shekel [53 cents] to 1.55 shekels [40 cents] per kilowatt hour.
Israel incentivizes the production of renewable energy by paying an enhanced rate to producers who pump energy from renewable sources into Israel’s electrical grid, thereby forcing the authority to limit the volume of renewable energy it can afford to buy.
    The move comes a few months after Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau announced that 10 percent of Israel’s energy needs will come from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020. To meet the goal, Israel must install enough renewable energy infrastructure to produce over 4,000 megawatts hours of power.
    According to the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure the country’s three main energy sources are coal (69 percent), natural gas (23 percent) and oil (7 percent).