Why Israel wants in on Australia’s energy boom
Israeli technology could help Australia manage and secure its rapidly expanding renewable energy grid.
South Australia spent the last afternoon of winter running almost entirely on sunlight.
On August 31, rooftop solar alone met 99.9 per cent of the state’s electricity demand, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator, grid-scale generation was needed for just two megawatts, an afterthought beside the output pouring off suburban roofs.
It’s the kind of record cited as proof Australia’s energy transition to green power is working.
But it is also, in AEMO’s own words, a management headache: “High renewable generation increasingly being balanced in real time by batteries, hydro and gas, supported by the transmission network.”
That gap – abundant power, immature capacity to move and secure it – is exactly where Israel’s energy tech sector has started pitching itself as a partner rather than a spectator.
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