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Publicity and Awards Technological Center Institute. They are currently published. The Solaris Com- purchasing the monitoring pany, which also participated The Energy Initiative and the A tender for the Technologi- equipment, and establishing in the last visit to Toronto, Regional Council won the Ne- cal Center was published a three trial systems for start-up is installing a pilot project gev Environmental Prize for month ago. After much hesi- companies in : Bisolar, on the sewage purification large-scale development of tation the Shibolet law group plant’s reservoirs in Eilat alternative energy and prac- and Mr. Shai Shiller decided prior to the conference. The tical implementation in the to assist Eilat and Hevel Eilot company is also finalizing a field. Additional winners of to establish the group that will contract with the Ein Netafim the prize were the Air Force be situated in the Center. The Corporation for the estab- in the Negev, Sde Boker Col- group is currently comprised lishment of a three megawatt lege, the Bromine Compound of: Eilat – Eilot, Ben Gurion floating solar panels system. plant, Soroka Hospital and University (together with the The Concentrix Company is the Ramat Negev Rashelle Sde Boker energy laboratory), in the final stages of closing Environmental Unit, each in most likely Rafael Industries, an agreement with a kib- their own field. and two or three private enti butz in the region (Samar or Lotan) for the establishment of a pilot for a 50 kilowatt CPV.

William Weisinger Timna Industrial Area Pythagoras and Verilight. Progress has been slow, but Further down the line we there has in fact been prog- will work towards receipt of ress! The survey on the envi- certification from the world- ronmental impact is almost wide verification centers in complete and the program the United States, Europe and is in advanced stages, super- China. We are looking into vised by experts on thermo- options for coordinating this solar energy. The government project together with the Isra- and the electric company ac- Ceremony for Negev Environmental Prize, Noam Ilan and Udi Gat, el Standards Institute, which cepted the method for ten- front row center will provide Standards Insti- dering land without any tech- tute approval to the compa- nological prerequisites, and ties from the United States nies at the end of the approval financial closure and fulfill- Dorit Davidovich Banet who will provide most of the process. Such a laboratory ment of the aims of the elec- was invited by the European funding. would be able to earn a great tricity authority are sufficient Union to present the Eilat – deal of money from compa- conditions for receipt of land Hevel Eilot developmental nies which submit their com- at Timna. model at the sustainability panies for verification and The aim is to publish a ten- conference for mid-sized cities Verification Center would also create a new field der and submit the plans by in Europe, which was held in The Energy Initiative and the of knowledge and new jobs. April – May 2010. It should Portugal. The presentation The National Infrastructures be taken into consideration was extremely successful and Arava Institute established a Verification Center for veri- Minister, Dr. Uzi Landau, will that quite a few additional much praise was received for inaugurate the Verification bureaucratic problems can be the implementation of the fication of the efficiency and performance of modern so- Laboratory on 16.2.2010. expected, particularly with model. Dorit was also named the electric company in ev- Woman of the Year in the field lar energy systems. William Weisinger, a 29 year old bio- erything regarding the elec- of the environment by the trical connection from the Yediot Ahronot newspaper’s chemist oleh from South Af- rica, was chosen to coordinate Pilot Projects industrial area to the national Economist magazine. She electricity line. was selected as one of the four the establishment of the Cen- A tender for solar air con- opinion leaders in Israel. ter together with Dr. Tareq ditioning in the Goldwater Abu Hamed from the Arava School in Eilat is soon to be Eilat - Eilot Renewable Energy Administration www.eilatenergy.org, [email protected] Update Review No.5 January 25, 2010 Energy Efficiency As a result of the 2009 con- ference the Chromagen Com- pany finalized with 20 hotels in Eilat to change their water- heating systems to solar pan- els. On January 17th, the in- stallation will begin in Eilat. The Chromagen Company and the Energy Initiative sub- mitted a request to the Na- tional Infrastructures Minis- try together as a public appeal for a pilot to replace electric heating tanks on the kibbut- zim to solar closed-system tanks which can also handle the highly corrosive salinity of the water in the Arava. also starting the process of is an outstanding example respected sponsors for the writing additional lesson of environmental, social and conference. plans. Dr. Michael Kagan, economic success in the re- an expert on both Juda- gion. Education ism and renewable energy, Two community study eve- will begin writing a group nings were held on CREEC projects at the The educational program is of lesson plans on Judaism on renewable energy Arava Institute for Envi- progressing and has been and the environment, which and energy efficiency, to ronmental Studies enthusiastically received by will be taught as part of the which there was much posi- all of the partners. Five col- homeroom teachers’ lessons tive response. There are five large experi- lections of wonderful lesson in classes that teach the ments currently in progress: plans that were written by subject of renewable energy hydrogen production; bio- the teachers themselves are in the framework of science gas – adapting a waste re- in the final editing stages. lessons. cycling process based upon An additional 30-hr semi- Conference anaerobic digestion; biod- nar was held for ten more The conference is coming iesel; settling dust; and PV teachers from Eilat-Eilot, up very soon and there is cooling. which was extremely suc- Community and Height- much to be done! We expect cessful. These teachers are ened Employment some 1,500 attendees; many The renewable energy labo- important guests will arrive ratory is equipped with sev- Renewable Energy Educational Program – Elementary school Opportunities Lesson outline for teachers from all over the world. In eral instruments which en- Written by: Einat Avraham Professional editing: Eli Kalmanzon, Rachel Glaubman, Adva Eshel Rabinowitz The Chromagen Company light of the great demand we able several of the experi- paid for ten members / resi- have enlarged the confer- ments to be conducted. Topic expansion: Electricity usage and Energy efficiency dents of Hevel Eilot to par- ence and it will take place ticipate in a course teaching at two hotels simultaneous- ENERGY how to install and become ly, in both the Herod’s and CONSERVATION technicians for thermosolar Dan Hotels. The European systems. The course was ex- Union confirmed funding tremely successful. Some of for bringing business people the participants will work as from Spain, Italy, Slovenia Chromagen Company em- and Bulgaria to the confer- ployees for installations in ence, in order to broaden Is- Eilat, and some will even raeli business activities and Dorit Banet, RE co-manager, become partners of the com- to create new opportunities. "Agenda leader", photographed pany and will open a branch The funding will be provid- for an article in Calcalist, one of Chromagen in one of the ed through the EC04B proj- of Israel's leading economic fo- Council’s settlements. This ect. There are many well- rums, presenting the 10 heroes of 2009