New Wind intiatives in Israel

I know I seem a little obsessive on wind energy, however it is with good reason. Yes, Israel has lots of sun and lots of companies attempting to harness it, but i still strongly believe that we should also be looking at other alternative energy sources like wind. There was an interesting article in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post entitled “Draft tender published for Negev wind farms”. This article discusses the latest initiatives being worked on to develop wind farms in the Negev.

Today Israel has one Wind facility in the Golan which produces 6 MW and two more in the works to produce another 22MW.

The article also talks about the efforts to measure the wind flow in Israel and how it has taken years of labor to achieve this.  It also mentions israeli start-ups involved in developing methods of harnessing electricity even at low wind speeds. These are all interesting topics that I will hopefully delve more into over the next few months.

I would really like to see Wind power succeed in Israel and would be willing to invest efforts in this direction.

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