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August 28th, 2005, 07:00 AM
Y-net: New regulations will now allow Israelis to produce and sell their electricty using solar panels, which until now you could produce but not sell back
to IEC.
This is now becoming common in Europe, but Israel has much more sun and sun days and so you will need smaller and cheaper solar panels, and could sell back much more energy.
A solar panel of 2 meters square would cost 1800$ (8100 NIS), but could end up saving much more, plus you would get refunds from the IEC in winter for the electricity you sell or save them in summer.
a panel producing 600 kw/h would end up saving a family 318 NIS a year, this means a return of initial investment in 25 years, like a mortgage, because price of electricity is 0.45 Nis per kw/h, but solar panels last between 10-15 years only. If price doubles, it would mean saving double, until then, government officials hope Israelis would do it as a means of helping the environment, Israeli companies sell these mainly to europe, israel ironically is too small a market still for them, and only large institutions have put up these panels to self produce electricity. If the price of solar panels goes down, as all new technologies, this would be a good household investment.
Today only water boilers in Israel use solar panels while the rest of the house uses electricity from power plants.
"If every Israeli roof had a few sqm's of solar panels, we could triple the energy we make without ading a single power plant" say experts.
to IEC.
This is now becoming common in Europe, but Israel has much more sun and sun days and so you will need smaller and cheaper solar panels, and could sell back much more energy.
A solar panel of 2 meters square would cost 1800$ (8100 NIS), but could end up saving much more, plus you would get refunds from the IEC in winter for the electricity you sell or save them in summer.
a panel producing 600 kw/h would end up saving a family 318 NIS a year, this means a return of initial investment in 25 years, like a mortgage, because price of electricity is 0.45 Nis per kw/h, but solar panels last between 10-15 years only. If price doubles, it would mean saving double, until then, government officials hope Israelis would do it as a means of helping the environment, Israeli companies sell these mainly to europe, israel ironically is too small a market still for them, and only large institutions have put up these panels to self produce electricity. If the price of solar panels goes down, as all new technologies, this would be a good household investment.
Today only water boilers in Israel use solar panels while the rest of the house uses electricity from power plants.
"If every Israeli roof had a few sqm's of solar panels, we could triple the energy we make without ading a single power plant" say experts.