Isarel and Germany renew their Agreement on Energy Cooperation

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On 5 December 2023, as part of the UN’s global climate conference COP28, Dr. Gideon Friedman, Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, and Gerlind Heckmann, Deputy Director of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, signed a joint work programme by the two states in the energy field for the year 2024.

As a reminder: the two states had already signed a shared work plan in the energy field for 2023 at COP27, held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2022. In the framework of the 2023 agreement teams from both states shared knowledge and methods in the field of energy and held several meetings on subjects such as power-grid management, hydrogen, cyber-security, and agrivoltaics, in order to enhance and strengthen the Israeli and German energy sectors.

Within the framework of the signed agreement, the two states will continue the work in 2024, with an emphasis on cooperation on further subjects such as: energy efficiency, energy security, defense of physical energy infrastructure and expansion of renewable energy infrastructure with an emphasis on the power-grid, electric vehicles, hydrogen and more. The work plan is the fruit of joint work by professional teams from both states, and has been adapted in the past few months to the needs of Israel which arose in light of the war.

Source and further details: Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

Video of the signing ceremony at COP28 | Source: YouTube channel of the German Climate Pavilion

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