Israel's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Energy have launched a tender to deploy around 100 MW of agrivoltaic capacity across 100 locations in the country.

Selected projects will be awarded a fixed tariff ILS 0.2091 ($0.06.708)/kWh over a 23-year period.  The agrovoltaic facilities will be spread through regions such as the Golan Heights, Mount Hermon, Mateh Yehuda, the Jordan Valley, the Eilot region, the Springs Valley, the Upper Galilee, and the Negev desert.

The Israeli government wants to test electricity generated from solar power facilities on arable land. The country has been developing and testing agrivoltaic systems to allow electricity to be generated from solar panels above crops. Such facilities will generate about 100 MW of power on different types of farmland at 100 locations in Israel, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Energy said in a joint statement.