After the National Infrastructures Ministry announced it would expand its feed-in tariff scheme to include medium-sized solar-power stations ranging from 50 kilowatts to 5 megawatts, Sunday Solar Energy announced that it would invest $133 million in photovoltaic solar arrays for installation on kibbutzim. The use of began in in the 1950s with the development by of a solar water heater to address the energy shortages that plagued the new country. By 1967 around 5% of water of households wer. In 1949, the prime minister,, offered Harry Zvi Tabor a job on the 'physics and engineering desk' of the Research Council of Israel, which he accepted. He created an Israeli national laboratory and cr. On 2 June 2008, the Israeli Public Utility Authority approved a for solar plants. The tariff is limited to a total installation of 50 MW during 7 years, whichever is reached first, with a maximum of 15.
