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Last Call for Israeli Clean Tech Companies: Meet Dream Teams In California

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South Korea Looks to Collaborate With Israel on Renewable Energy

Shimon Peres from Israel and Lee Myung-bak from South Korea at Davos. (Image via Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.) A high-ranking delegation from South Korea...

Israel Seeks to Build Nuclear Power Plants With Arab Neighbors

A pan-Middle East nuclear power plan? Arabs and Israelis working together? While Israel continues to maintain a policy of ambiguity regarding its military nuclear capability,...

A New Solar Energy Source from the Common Pea

An Israeli scientist has found a way to pull solar energy from pea plants. If harnessing the unlimited solar power of the sun were...

Tap Into North Africa and Middle East Solar Opportunities at MENASOL

Destertec and Masdar (above) are heating up solar energy opportunities in the Middle East. Tap into this new energy at the 2nd Annual MENASOL...

Can Israel’s Wind Power Sector Compete with Solar?

Photo by sla514 via Travelpod. In Israel, renewable energy has become almost synonymous with solar energy in its various forms. But what about that other...

"Cold Peace" May Keep Proposed Egyptian-Israeli Solar Project On Ice

An Israeli-Egyptian solar project in the Sinai Desert? Not on Egypt's account. It was the sunniest news to come out of the Eilat Energy conference...

Will Solar Fields Cover Israel's Last Open Spaces?

Empty land in Israel's Arava desert. (photo by Jesse Fox) A conflict may be brewing between an emerging renewable energy industry and environmentalists over land...

5 Tips for Cleantech Companies to use PR to Gain Credibility in the Marketplace

Yes, even small cleantech startups with no consumer focus should work on building a brand. A small solar panel outfit can benefit years down the road from a home buyer asking for their specific solar panels. If it worked with Anderson Windows and Intel inside computers, it can work with wind turbines, lithium-ion car batteries or solar panels.

US Gov. Guarantees $1.4 Billion in Loans For BrightSource and World's Largest Solar Thermal Plant

Controversy loomed over coyote land, but now BrightSource with a US Gov guarantee will create largest solar energy project in the world, in Ivanpah...

Webinar on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Technology

A free and universally accessible five-session "webinar" on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSTP) technology is being offered by Seville University and will be taught...

Terra Venture Partners Billed Israel's Most Active Venture Capital Investor in 2009

Terra Venture Partners ramps up on clean tech investments in Israel. It's no secret that Israel has one of the world's most prolific venture capital...

American eSolar Company and Germany's Ferrostaal to Build Solar Projects in the UAE

A Simplified Thermal Solar Power Unit in the UAE: Turkish Coffee Anyone? The United Arab Emirate's hot sunshine will soon be providing energy as well, thanks...

Egypt Teams With Abu Dhabi on 200MW Wind Farm Near Suez

Wind farm in Egyptian desert at Zafarana. (Image via windpowerworks.net) The Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) and Abu Dhabi’s green energy company, Masdar,...

Israel, Egypt Considering Joint Solar Energy Project in Sinai

Israeli Minister Ben-Eliezer addressing the Eilat energy conference this morning. (photo by Daniel Cherrin). Israel and Egypt are discussing a possible collaborative solar energy project in...

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