盡管走在太陽(yáng)能技術(shù)的最前沿，太陽(yáng)能應(yīng)用在以色列并未廣泛流行。因此，以政府出臺(tái)了旨在改變這種狀況的新舉措。
    近日，以色列公用事業(yè)管理局已宣布了一項(xiàng)新倡議，推動(dòng)該國(guó)太陽(yáng)能發(fā)電量。周三，該管理局宣布，為提高太陽(yáng)能發(fā)電量，政府愿意購(gòu)買電力，政府將支付太陽(yáng)能電力生產(chǎn)商1.55謝克爾（40美分）至2.04謝克爾（53美分）至）/每千瓦時(shí)。
    以色列政府以支付太陽(yáng)能發(fā)電商入國(guó)家電網(wǎng)補(bǔ)貼的方式激勵(lì)本國(guó)可再生能源生產(chǎn)，從而限制權(quán)力機(jī)構(gòu)購(gòu)買其可支付的可再生能源量。
    數(shù)月前以色列國(guó)家基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施部長(zhǎng)Uzi Landau宣布，到2020年以色列10%的能源需求將來自諸如風(fēng)能和太陽(yáng)能等可再生能源。為了達(dá)到這個(gè)目標(biāo)，以色列必須安裝足夠的可再生能源基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施，生產(chǎn)4000兆瓦小時(shí)的電力。
    根據(jù)以色列國(guó)家基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施部的報(bào)告，目前以色列的三個(gè)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).