Israeli funds and companies exploit or develop in Spain solar and wind plants with a joint power of more than 3,000 megawatts (MW), as much as three nuclear reactors. Although it is not certain that all are built and the power of a nuclear (which works in theory every day of the year) is not comparable to the renewable (intermittent by nature), the data illustrates the appetite of Israel groups, some with a controversial history, by the Spanish boom of clean energy.
In full genocide in Gaza, with more than 63,500 Gazatis killed by Israel since October 2023, this summer has been in the Enlight focus, quoted in Tel Aviv and the US Nasdaq and owner of the macrocomplex of Gecama (wind generation of Castilla-La Mancha), the largest wind farm in Spain, with 329.2 MW installed.
In July, more than 130 environmental organizations, human rights, unions, platforms and groups requested by letter to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the third vice president and minister for the ecological transition, Sara Aagesen, and the head of Foreign Apartheid regime that promotes both the forced displacement of people in the West Bank and the now resurgence of violence in the form of Gaza genocide “is” part of the country’s energy security. ”
Enllight, with which Eldiario.es contacted without obtaining a response, is one of the companies to which the Independent WHHO PROFITS Center points out for profiting with the occupation in Palestine and Syria for their projects around the border with Gaza and territories occupied by Israel. With a 35 gigaw portfolio (GW) in ten countries, among its assets is Gecama, in Atalaya de Cañavate, Tébar and Cañada Juncosa (Cuenca). “The largest operational wind plant today in Spain,” as Enllight defines it, has just received the approval of ecological transition to become “the largest hybrid complex in its category”, with 554 MW and expected annual income of 100 million dollars, according to Enllight in June.
At the end of 2024, three Deputies of Sumar asked in writing to the Government for the expansion of the plant and their opinion that “companies that operate in occupied territories, as is the case of Enllight Renewable Energy in the Altos del Golán, financed electrical installations in Spain.” “The project promoter meets the requirements of the applicable regulations to carry out the corresponding procedures to obtain the necessary authorizations,” the Executive replied.
In June, ecological transition authorized the GECAMA Hybridization Megaproject and accelerated administrative procedures by declaring it of “public utility.” The extension, for which the company has closed 310 million dollars of financing and that hopes to have operational in the second half of 2026, will include a photovoltaic generation module of 225 MW and another of storage by 100 MW batteries. The need for these systems is “especially pressing taking into account the generalized blackouts suffered by Spain in April 2025,” Enllight said in June.
Another Israeli company with an important presence in Spain and quoted in Tel Aviv, Nofar Energy, does not appear in that sho profits list, although its founder, president and maximum shareholder, Offer Yannay, is clearly aligned with the policies of Benjamín Netanyahu.
Recently defined by Mundo Deportivo as “new ambassador of Zionism” and “a billionaire obsessed with the October 7 attacks that is in favor of attacking Iran”, Yannay believes that “the enemies of Israel slander us and try to defame the brave soldiers of the armed forces” and consider Donald Trump “the best president from Harry S. Truman.” “In my view we have defeated Hamas,” he said in April, after beating his basketball team, the Hapoel of Tel Aviv, to Gran Canaria in the Eurocup final, after eliminating Valencia Basket in the semifinals.
Yannay, whose renewable company is worth about 1,000 million euros, was included by Jerusalem Post in the ranking of the 40 most influential personalities in the country in 2023. That year it became maximum shareholder of the Hapoel. A few days ago he unleashed the anger of his fans (traditionally identified with the Israeli political left) when he ordered to erase a post in X in which the club adhered to protests in favor of an agreement to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and end the war, as Haaretz collected.
With about 200 employees, and operations in 10 countries, Nofar Energy has 1.27 photovoltaic GW connected or ready to start pouring, according to its website. Allied with the Spanish Eranovum (co -founded by the Israeli Guy Shahar) and the Israeli fund Noy, in 2022 signed a long -term energy supply contract with El Corte Inglés to cover almost half of its annual consumption. It appeared as one of the greatest agreements of this type (known as PPA) signed until then.
In Spain Nofar Energy has 407 MW installed, according to its latest annual report, and 40 in development. In Olmedilla de Alarcón, Valverdejo and Alarcón (Cuenca) it has the solar parks Olmedilla (169 MW) and Sabinar I and II, “one of the most important in the group”, according to its website, with 238 MW, about 370 million inverted and financing of Caixabank.
According to Red Eléctrica (Ree) records, two minutes before the historic blackout of April 28, at 12.32 hours, Nofar plants in Cuenca suffered two “unavailability” due to failures. It is unknown if they are among those that were disconnected in a “improper” way, according to the Government, in the sequence of errors that the very serious incident, because the Executive’s report censored the names of the facilities at the request of the companies. eldiario.es contacted Nofar and Uporum, his partner in Spain, without a response.
Former military and “consultant”
It also has a solar megaparque in Spain Ellomay Capital, whose president until November and the main shareholder is Shlomo Nehama, former president of the largest Bank of Israel, Hapoalim, indicated by Who Profits for profiting with the occupation. In Ellomay, the former military Ehud Gil, co -founder of the Israeli Histrix Technologies, who develops and manufactures unmanned land vehicles for sectors such as defense, has been advisor since November 2020. Lieutenant Colonel retired from the Armed Forces in 2018, Gil occupied several positions in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, which is still “consultant”, he explains on his website Ellomay.
With about 339 MW operations in Spain, among the assets of this Israeli firm highlights 51% of the photovoltaic Talasol (300 MW), in Talaván (Cáceres). Connected in December 2020 and announced at the time as one of the largest in Europe, the Official Credit Institute (ICO) took 24.5% in 2019. He also owns the adjacent plant “Ellomay Solar” (28 MW), protagonist of a fire that used the Agrarian Lobby SOS rural (close to the ultra -right of Vox) to spread bulls on the solar panels, and four small plants of 7.9 MW in Murcia and Córdoba.
It also appears in the WHO Profits database La Israelí AFCon Holdings, of the Shlomo conglomerate, among the elders of the country and with common businesses with Trump’s family. Specifically, with a son -in -law of the US president, who wants to turn Gaza into a “rivie” forced displacement of the more than two million inhabitants of the strip for the phase after the Israeli massacre.
In 2023, the controversial private capital firm Affinity Partners, backed by Saudi Arabia and piloted by Jared Kushner, son -in -law of Trump and his advisor in his previous mandate in the White House, paid about 150 million dollars for 15% of the subsidiary of the Shlomo vehicle leasing unit, a company that has tried to take a bump this year.
At the end of 2023, the SHLOMO Renovable Subsiden agreed to the purchase of solar projects with 82 MW in Spain to the Swedish OX2 group for about 100 million. Recently announced the purchase of the photovoltaic El Lobo, in Alicante, (40 MW) and encrypted its 120 MW portfolio in Spain. Merchant linked to group managers are linked to projects such as PHOTOVOLTAICA PEPINO FV 2, authorized by the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha in April 2024 (12 MW). eldiario.es contacted AFCon, without an answer.
Only 50 MW photovoltaic in operation (in Aragon) has in Spain the Israeli Soloer Renewable Energy, which presumes on its website a huge portfolio of more than 1.5 GW in our country. Only about 90 MW are under construction and the rest in different development phases. A few months ago he sold a portfolio of 100 MW in Spain to the British Fund Infrared, which in 2022 won a conviction against the Spanish State for the renewable cuts of the Government of Mariano Rajoy.
Soloer Renewable Energy is linked to another firm in Luxembourg, resolar, which on its website is presented as “a collaboration” between that company, the Spanish Himin Solar and another Israeli, Indigo Energy Ltd. “We work to acquire project rights, develop, build and operate photovoltaic energy plants in several countries, including Italy and Spain. Our impressive current portfolio sum almost 1.4 GW,” they say.
From his framework in Luxembourg hangs Camanal Energía SL, which in 2024 received permission from the Junta de Castilla y León to install 50 MW in León; or Libienergy Aragonese, SL, to which the Aragon government authorized 37.5 MW in Huesca last year. Five compensus societies (PHOTOVOLTAICS SL, Photovoltaic Soluz SL, CEFEO XXI CENTURY, Fornax One Sun SL and photons of the Atlantic SL) saw the access permissions of five solar parks in Toledo and Guadalajara with about 320 MW and ecological transition denied the authorizations between October 2023 and December 2024.
Source: www.eldiario.es
