Palestine Wind and Solar Storage Upstream

Can solar energy be used for different applications in Palestine?

These values are encouraging to exploit the solar energy for different applications. This study highlights that the main renewable energy sources in Palestine are solar energy, wind energy and biomass, thereby the energy dependence on neighbouring countries may significantly decrease, when Palestine uses the available renewable energy sources.

What is the energy supply in Palestine?

In 2019, the total energy supply was 81,903 TJ of which about 85% is electricity, diesel, gasoline, kerosene, and LPG (PCBS, 2019). In the same year, the RE sources, namely solar energy, wood and charcoal, and olive cake, represented 13.66% of the energy mix in Palestine (PCBS, 2019).

What is energy security in Palestine?

Energy security in Palestine over the upcoming 20 years is investigated using a Monte-Carlo simulation model that applies different RE adoption scenarios. In order to meet the Palestinian population's electrical energy needs in the near future, RE sources should be growing at an annual rate of about 5–10%.

Does Palestine have a high solar energy potential?

By the other hand, Palestine has a high solar energy potential about 3000 sunshine hours per year with a solar radiation (kW h/m /day) for year 2013 of 8.27 in Ramallah, 7.51 in Hebron, 6.86 in Salfeet and 6.15 in Tubas. These values are encouraging to exploit the solar energy for different applications.

How to reduce energy consumption in Palestine?

Recently, after the evolution of increasing oil prices, energy has become another major challenge to sustainable development for Palestinian . Thus, the other main goal to achieve is to reduce the energy consumption in Palestine, these can be done by the development of a clear energy conservation and regulation policy .

Does Palestine have a low energy consumption?

Palestine has a low energy intensity, measured as primary energy divided by GDP, which was only 3.3 MJ/US$ in the year 2019 indicating a low energy consumption (UNCT & OPM, 2020). The World Bank Group (2017) study estimated the potential of available RE to approach 4246 MW of which 98.3% is solar energy.