Solar Energy

Israeli startup creates ‘virtual power plants' to solve the data center energy crisis - interview

Omer Kriger, the CEO and Co-founder of nGrid, talked to The Jerusalem Post about how his company is transforming batteries into a “virtual power plant.”

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
The offices at nGrid.
NASA ASTRONAUT and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon April 2, 2026.

Japanese corporation floats plan to build massive 'lunar ring'

In its most expansive form, the project could generate up to 13,000 terawatts of energy per hour, a level that would far exceed current global electricity needs if realized at scale.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The logo of Bank Hapoalim, Israel's biggest bank, is seen at their main branch in Tel Aviv, Israel July 18, 2016.

Ashtrom Renewable Energy reaches $200m financial close with Bank Hapoalim for solar project

Company says the El Patrimonio project near San Antonio is set for commercial operation in 2027 after securing financing, tax-credit agreements and long-term power sales arrangements in the US.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman sits on a swing and watches the sun set.

California startup pitches 50,000 space reflectors to extend daylight

Backers say orbital reflectors could deliver round-the-clock clean power to the grid; critics call the plan 'for the dumbest reason ever'.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

SodaStream pledges 100% renewable energy by 2023

SodaStream entered a corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) with the global renewable energy platform Enlight.

AUGUST 3, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Enlight's Solar Project.

Israeli company signs solar deal with Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia will hit 1.5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity this year, of which 1GW will be solar, an increase from 22.5 megawatts in 2013.

AUGUST 2, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
SolarEdge's Community Solar Project in Rhode Island, USA

Wind and solar to produce over a third of global power by 2030 - report

The cost of solar power, which is already the cheapest form of electricity production, will fall as low as $20 per megawatt-hour.

JULY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
Gigawatt Global's 7.5 MW Solar Field in Burundi, completed in May 2021, providing over 10% of the country's electricity.

Desertification Day: How Israel could help solve the desertification crisis

"There is hope," said Nicole Hod-Stroh. "Israel's Negev is leading this hope and should be a source of national pride."

JUNE 17, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
In the Negev Desert, Israeli innovation offers the world ways to build resilient crops, water technologies, clean energy and other tools. Shown here, a solar energy field.

Photosynthesis can make life in space, on Mars, Moon sustainable - study

Utilizing a device to use solar power for photosynthesis, converting water into oxygen for air supply and hydrogen for fuel, could be used for sustainable occupation of Mars and the Moon.

JUNE 14, 2023ByAARON REICH
An artistic illustration of an outpost on the Moon fit for human habitation.

There is something new under the sun

An interview with Ofer Yannay, chairman and founder of Nofar Energy.

JUNE 1, 2023ByALAN ROSENBAUM
OFER YANNAY: ‘Entrepreneurs are the key. The biggest things in the world today are managed by entrepreneurs and not by politicians.’

Inside Israeli Innovation, Ep. 12: The solar show 

Maayan Hoffman and Zachy Hennessey talk solar: challenges, opportunities, new technologies and more

MAY 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gigawatt Global's 7.5 MW Solar Field in Burundi, completed in May 2021, providing over 10% of the country's electricity.

NASA might be able to use AI to predict dangerous solar storms

A solar storm occurs when material from solar wind reaches Earth's magnetic field - these are also called geomagnetic storms.

MAY 15, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A coronal mass ejection from the Sun imaged on August 31, 2012

Doral announces the raising of over NIS 1b. with Mizrahi Bank and other institutions

The financial agreement includes the raising of senior debt in the amount of approximately NIS 575 million including a set amount for equity and guarantees.

MAY 12, 2023ByWALLA! FINANCE
Solar panels (illustrative)

Burundi inaugurates country’s first utility-scale solar power field

Thanks to a Jerusalem-based company, Burundi now has the world’s only capital city powered 100% by solar energy during the daytime.

MAY 10, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Historic ribbon cutting by Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye for the Burundi 7.5MW solar field, near the village of Mubuga, Burundi, May 9, 2023. Gigawatt Global CEO Yosef Abramowitz, to his left, inaugurates his 18th solar field in 17 years.