- Doral is carving out a market share in Israel mainly due to government tenders for projects hosted by PUA.
- The country’s policy target to source 30% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 equates to about 12GW of solar PV capacity – about 26% of the whole, with 4% from other sources.
Sungrow has signed another battery storage supply deal with renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure developer Doral for projects in Israel. The contract for supplying an unspecified “several hundred MWh” of DC-coupled or AC-coupled battery energy storage system (BESS) technologies was signed at the Energy Storage Summit EU, hosted in London last week by our publisher Solar Media. China-headquartered solar PV inverter and battery storage manufacturer Sungrow said the deal with Doral Renewable Energy Resources Group covers equipment for projects set to be delivered from the middle of 2023 and through 2024 for connection to the grid by the end of next year.
Israel is a rapidly growing market for large-scale batteries. This is driven by a combination of renewable energy and decarbonisation policy goals and the uptake of solar PV in particular, coupled with the Israeli grid’s lack of interconnection with neighbouring countries. The country’s policy target to source 30% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 equates to about 12GW of solar PV capacity – about 26% of the whole, with 4% from other sources.
Doral is carving out a market share in Israel mainly due to government tenders for projects hosted by PUA. Doral has a pipeline of 1.4GWh in those Solar Storage I & II tenders, through which 777MW of PV and 3,072MWh were procured, and the deal with Sungrow adds to a 66MW/253MWh supply contract between the two companies signed in April 2022. Sungrow officially launched its latest range of liquid-cooled lithium-ion BESS solutions late last year, the ST2752UX for AC-coupled and DC-coupled utility-scale applications and ST500CP-250HV for the commercial and industrial (C&I) market segment.