Sen. Clifford P. Case (R. NJ) has urged the Carter Administration to initiate an effort to work out a joint agreement with Israel for the development of solar energy.
Case said his recommendation, made in identical letters to the Secretaries of State, Energy and the Treasury, was based on a recent analysis by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). At his request, OTA submitted to Case a detailed, 22-page analysis of the potential benefits to both the United States and Israel of a joint agreement for development of solar energy.
Among other things, the OTA analysis found that a joint agreement of this type could relieve same of the burden of higher energy costs to Israel and this, in turn, “would have the effect of relieving some of the burden of U.S. economic assistance to Israel.” The U.S. currently has an agreement with Saudi Arabia for technical cooperation in the field of solar energy.
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