In this update, Who Profits examines the growing Israeli renewable energy sector, contingent on the exploitation of occupied Palestinian and Syrian land and natural resources. 

This update highlights the construction and expansion of commercial renewable energy projects in the occupied West Bank, the Syrian Golan, and the Naqab, as part of the Israeli government’s decision to increase electricity production from renewable sources until 2030, for the benefit of Israeli households and industry on both sides of the Green Line.

This update is a follow-up to Who Profit’s previous reports: Plundering the Sun: The Israeli Solar Energy Industry and Palestinian Forced Displacement; Greenwashing the Golan; Greenwashing the Naqab: The Israeli Industry of Solar Energy; Greenwashing the Occupation: The Solar Energy Industry and the Israeli Occupation