German Solar Power Company Announces Joint Venture for Solar Power Plants in Israel

Berlin, November 5, 2012. SOLON Energy GmbH and the Israeli energy and technology company Elco have founded the joint venture SOLON Elco Renewables Ltd. The new company, located in Netanya near Tel Aviv, plans and builds solar power plants in Israel. Elco is a subsidiary of Elektra, one of the largest companies in Israel. In [...]

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New Partnership Will Increase Access to State-of-the-art Renewable Energy Assessment. Turkey and Israel

Relationships Will Increase Access to State-of-the-Art Renewable Energy Assessment and Forecasting Across Region LONDON— 3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy assessment and forecasting, today announced that it has secured partnerships with TNA in Turkey and Clean Electric in Israel. Going forward these renewable energy engineering consultancies will serve as 3TIER’s exclusive authorized resellers within [...]

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ReneSola’s Solar Modules Obtain Certification from Standards Institution of Israel

JIASHAN, China, Aug. 17, 2012. ReneSola Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of solar modules and solar wafers, today announced it has formally obtained certification from the Standards Institution of Israel (“SII”) for the Company’s solar modules, including its Virtus series, monocrystalline series and multicrystalline series of solar modules. SII certification is required by the Israeli [...]

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Solar Energy Companies Worldwide Threatened by Cuts in Government Subsidies

In any country, at the end of the proverbial day, both energy utilities and consumers are finally interested in the technologies that generate a kilowatt of electricity most inexpensively, all other considerations aside.   Accordingly, all countries involved in solar energy are optimists, but nascent industrial efforts to generate power on a commercial scale from [...]

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U.S. – Israel Energy Cooperation Program to Invest $3.1 Million in Four Clean Energy Projects

The BIRD Foundation will invest $3.1M in four clean energy cooperative projects, between U.S. and Israeli companies, under its “BIRD Energy” program. “BIRD Energy” was established following an agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy/EERE and the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure (MNI) to promote U.S.-Israel cooperation in clean/renewable energy technologies. The U.S. – Israel [...]

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DOE and Israel Announce $3.1 Million in Cooperative Clean Energy Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today highlighted a milestone in U.S.-Israel cooperation on clean energy technology. DOE and the Ministry of National Infrastructures of Israel (MNI) have selected four projects in California, Pennsylvania, and Washington to receive $3.1 million under the 2011 Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program. Each of the cooperative [...]

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Solar Hybrid Dish Technology Combines Concentrated Solar Thermal and Concentrated PV

Here is a very interesting technology from ZenithSolar that offers the best of both solar technologies in a sun-tracking hybrid dish configuration that is very scalable to any size application. The increase in conversion efficiency afforded by this hybrid arrangement provides more overall power per square meter of dish and the possibility of thermal storage. [...]

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Israeli Green-Tech Creates New Solar Power Window

The Israeli company Pythagoras Solar makes solar-power windows that harness the sun to reduce cut energy costs (NTD Television). Jerusalem- “Harnessing the sun” is what Gonen Fink, CEO of Pythagoras Solar, calls his company’s revolutionary clean-energy breakthrough: solar power windows. Pythagoras Solar “reinvents Building Integrated Photovoltaics for clean, energy efficient, self-powered buildings,” according to the [...]

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Israeli Thermo-Solar Developer Reveals HelioBoosterâ„¢

While reducing the solar field size needed by 30%, it presents the best performance, installation & environmental efficiencies, offering the lowest LCOE provides today in CSP industry HelioFocus, the Israeli thermo-solar developer, is proud to present its Dish technology – HelioBoosterâ„¢ – at InterSolar North America. This technology is physically proven as the most effective [...]

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ZenithSolar to Build Two 10 MW CHP Solar Stations in Gansu, China

Israeli Solar Combined Heat and Power Provider Signs Landmark Agreement with Chinese Government

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Isreali Government Speeds Up Process for Solar Project Approvals

Israeli Cabinet Approves Streamlined Plans For Solar Plant Construction Israel’s government cabinet has approved a plan that is designed to speed and simplify the processes under which solar power installations are approved and constructed in the country. The goal of the plan is to have 10% of Israel’s electricity generated by renewable sources by 2010.

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Energy Recovery and Geothermal Company Decides not to Bid on Ashalim Solar Thermal Energy Project

Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ORA), announced today that following the announcement of September 13 ,2010, its subsidiary, Ormat Systems Ltd. (“Ormat”), in accordance with its business partner Solar Millennium AG, has resolved not to submit a bid for the Solar Thermal tender at Ashalim, Israel. This mutually agreed decision is a result of both companies examination [...]

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A.O. Smith enters Strategic Agreement Israeli Solar Water Heating Developer

Milwaukee based A. O. Smith Corporation has entered into a strategic cooperative agreement with Chromagen, a leading global manufacturer of solar water heating solutions located in Sha’ar Ha’amakim, Israel, to develop advanced solar technology for water heating applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Chromagen will offer A. O. Smith exclusive marketing and distribution rights [...]

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