The Palestinian Energy and Environment Research Center ( PEC ) was established in December 1993 in Jerusalem, in accordance with the decision of His Excellency President Yasser Arafat, President of Palestine, in order to prepare studies and proposals about the needs of the Palestinian community for energy resources, traditional and non- traditional. PEC as a national independent organization has a full authorities and responsibility in the issues of energy and related environment, and to take care of the development of renewable energy issues, as well as energy conservation.
In July 1996, The center became part of the President’s Office, and subject to the decisions made by the President himself. The President has emphasized this relationship in many occasions, the last of these was in his historical speech in the Solar Summit in Harare, Sept.16.1996, in which he said: “ The Palestinian Energy and Environment Research Center was established by a Presidential decision to take care of the development of the renewable energy and energy conservation issues” The Center has finished the plans and studies to provide electricity to the remote communities in Palestine, by using the Solar, Wind and Biomass energy. By this time, nine locations including schools and clinics, had been provided by using Solar energy. The success of this project has a very substantial effect on the life of those communities.
Moreover, the center has began another national project for three years, in which 200
KWp of Solar energy will be installed in Palestine, this project is considered one of the
biggest in the Middle East.