Israel touts some of the world’s best solar technology advances (see our extensive solar energy company guide here), but its Middle East neighbor Dubai, says it is planning to set up the region’s largest solar energy manufacturing plant. They are expected to start producing by the last quarter in 2010, and will manufacture photovoltaic panels [...]

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Far be it for this Green Prophet to disavow her love of the city of Tel Aviv.  Tel Aviv has almost everything - the beach, museums, great food, interesting architecture, a happening nightlife…  But also, of course, traffic congestion, waste, pollution, an overdose of concrete, and the improper collection of rainwater, to name a few.  [...]

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Prophecy: Their core technology is based on a unique, proprietary optical design that extracts the maximum energy with minimal ‘real estate’. The system provides both high amounts of electricity and high temperatures of useful heat – that can address vertical co-generation applications.

Prophet: Roy Segev - Founder and CEO

Site: www.zenithsolar.com

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Prophecy: SolarEdge develops a unique power harvesting solution providing unsurpassed performance in real-life scenarios. It will lower the average cost per watt in any typical photovoltaic installation via increased wattage and lower costs, provide for easier and cheaper installation, and help make Photovoltaic (PV) installations relevant in more sites.

Prophet: Guy Sella - CEO

Site: www.solaredge.com

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Prophecy: PLASTIC MAGEN develops and produces an all plastic solar collector, used mainly as a swimming pool water heater and as pre-heating systems for industrial and domestic hot water supply.


Site: www.plasticmagen.com

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Prophecy: The technological concept chosen by MST is “concentrated sun energy”, as a means to reduce solar cells area (a major cost factor in flat panel solar plants) coupled with multi-junction solar cells. Actual most performant cell was announced in July 2003 by Spectrolab, having an efficiency of 37%. These two technologies, when combined, will be at the basis of the cost reduction planned by MST.

Prophet: Dov Raviv - Chairman & CEO

Site: www.rmst.co.il

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Prophecy: Designs, develops, installs and provides Photovoltaic (PV) solar energy systems and a wide variety of solar energy related services in Israel and throughout the world. Products include Multi Solar Systems that both generate electricity and produce hot water.

Prophet: Ami Elazari - Founder, CEO

Site: www.millenniumsolar.com

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Prophecy: LUZ II (a subsidiary of Brightsource Energy) plants generate electrical power by using solar energy to convert water to superheated steam. Solar fields reflect sunlight onto a receiver located on the top of a Power Tower. Each Power Tower module is linked by pipelines to a central location where superheated steam and electricity are produced.

Prophet: Arnold J. Goldman - Chairman & Founder

Site: www.luz2.com

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Prophecy: (EWA: for Earth, Water, Air), is developing a solar powered air conditioning system that converts solar energy to a low cost energy system that harnesses the sun’s power and uses it to create cooling.

Prophet: Dr. Etan Bar - CEO

Site: www.wt-ewa.com

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Prophecy: The company dominates the Israeli market in which 85% of the households rely on thermal solar systems for hot water. With three distribution centers, and more than 150 independent authorized local dealers, the company provides a nationwide network for sales, installation and customer service.

Prophet: Haggai Shefer - CEO

Site: www.chromagen.biz

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