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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Initiative

Solar panels on the roof of a private homeon n Aug 13 , 2009. (Chen Leopold / Flash 90)
March 5, 2024, 1:05 pm
Officials tell worried Israelis solar panels better than generators in event of war
Authorities react to panic buying of generators by citizens who fear war with Hezbollah could leave them in the dark; expert says solar energy a better solution for national grid too
By Sue Surkes
Thomas, the BaTTeRi company's mobile EV charger. (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 29, 2024, 7:28 am
Israeli contest sees investors grab energy tech startups for pilot projects
Innovations at ‘Spark Tank’ event include a robot that charges electric vehicles, and V-shaped solar panel roofs that channel rain onto crops while producing power
By Sue Surkes
A hydrogen-fueled truck on the road. (audioundwerbung, at iStock by Getty Images)
December 16, 2021, 7:59 pm
Energy Ministry budgets NIS 100 million to advance hydrogen tech
Pilot hydrogen filling station to be opened in northern Israel, followed by commercial station next year
By Sue Surkes
Solar panels. (lovelyday12, iStock at Getty Images)
December 16, 2021, 7:29 pm
At green energy confab, industry doubts Israel will reach renewable targets
Many of the more than 700 participants at Renewable Energy Conference in Eilat grumble over government’s slow pace, centralization and red tape
By Sue Surkes
One of Augwind's polymer air batteries at Kibbutz Yahel in southern Israel, December 15, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 15, 2021, 9:41 pm
IEC inks $8 million deal with company that uses air, water to store energy
Touted as a cost-competitive, sustainable alternative to lithium batteries, Augwind’s ‘air batteries’ can power turbines when needed
By Sue Surkes
A new solar field in Timna, southern Israel, built by EDF Renewables Israel and formally opened on December 15, 2021. (EDF Renewables Israel)
December 15, 2021, 5:00 pm
‘Gas can wait,’ says energy minister, rejecting panel’s call for further exploration
Addressing a renewable energy conference in Eilat, Karine Elharrar vows that 2022 will be the ‘year of renewable energy’
By Sue Surkes
The sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea near Ashkelon on September 12, 2014. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
October 20, 2021, 11:30 am
The sun is shining, so why isn’t Israel making hay of its solar energy?
The energy minister prioritizes renewables. One entrepreneur says the sun could supply all our energy by 2035. But policy discord and red tape cloud Israel’s sunny renewable future
By Sue Surkes
View of the Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on August 21, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 19, 2021, 5:27 am
In run-up to Earth Day, Energy Ministry publishes road map for cutting emissions
Aiming at 27% decrease in energy sector’s production of greenhouse gases by 2030, minister Steinitz reveals early-stage talks with Arab neighbors on Israel buying solar energy
By Sue Surkes
Yosef Abramowitz (in peach shirt) and his partners at Israel's first solar field in 2013 (photo credit: Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)
December 19, 2014, 3:58 am
Near major oil spill, a solar field grows in Israel
Eilot Belt project aims to provide daytime energy needs of area’s 55,000 residents by next year
By Ben Sales
Workers on the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig, 24 kilometers off the southern coast of Ashkelon, October 11, 2013 (photo crdit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 10, 2014, 7:17 pm
Report gives Israel low marks for its energy policy
Israel imports too much of its energy and pays too much for it. All the more reason, some say, to look to the sun
By David Shamah
Yosef Abramowitz stands in front of the damaged portion of the Trans-Israel pipeline (Photo credit: Courtesy)
December 8, 2014, 6:42 pm
Pipeline disaster called ‘crude reminder’ of oil’s dangers
The timing of the Arava spill couldn’t be more ironic – just days before the start of Israel’s largest alternative energy conference
By David Shamah
A solar project in the Negev (Photo credit: Courtesy)
September 8, 2014, 5:19 pm
Solar power makes a big jump with new Negev project
Israel’s most ambitious renewable energy project will supply electricity for businesses in Eilat and beyond, says expert
By David Shamah
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