Who doesn’t want to jump onto the carbon offset bandwagon when you see Coldplay advocating it? I mean come on, that’s a cool bunch of guys, and if they are doing it, it must be the right thing to do. As interest in environmental issues has grown, so has the alluring, politically correct, celebrity-sanctioned model of carbon off-setting.

Carbon offsetting is still a relatively unknown concept in Saudi Arabia but a few foreign carbon offset companies have stated to speed up their marketing efforts in the Kingdom. While I am all for conserving the ecosphere, I think it makes sense to question the relevance and feasibility of offsets in the kingdom. Many experts now believe that the offset model comes with its own set of challenges and it will be interesting to see how these manifest in the Saudi context. Here are my arguments for why I think it won’t work:

1. Coldplay shows how trees can be Troublesome:

Forestation makes up about 20 percent of the carbon offset market. Based on the idea that trees absorb carbon, companies wishing to offset their emissions sponsor the planting of trees designed to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

While this seems great in theory there are multiple problems with this. Firstly “Carbon emissions from burned oil, gas or coal cannot be considered as equal to the same amount of biological carbon in a tree,” according to scientists at the Forests and the European Union Resource Network.

Secondly, it may take years before a tree is able to fully offset the estimated emissions and companies mistakenly offset immediate emissions with reductions that would occur only during the 100-year life span of a tree.

Lastly and most importantly, as we saw in the case of the “Cold Play Forest”, Trees are not the most reliable carbon offset investments. Ten thousand trees were planted in India to offset the Band’s emissions during their second album and according to this detailed article in The Telegraph, 40% of those trees died within 4 years.

2. Shift of Responsibility:

There have been concerns internationally that the carbon offset model triggers the natural human desire to compensate and consumers may see it as an excuse to indulge in pollution and overly consumptive behaviours.

Saudi society is well known for its excessively lavish lifestyle and if the carbon offset model becomes the norm or the “IN” thing there is a risk that it may lead to people using it as an excuse to pollute.

3. Redistribution not Reduction:

Last but not the least, the main reason I think an offset model cannot work for Saudi Arabia is because it does not address the real issue of carbon emissions in the first place. Consumers and companies in Saudi Arabia need to discover their environmental stance before they rethink it.

In a country where the utilities are dirt cheap and the fuel costs less than a can of soda, the real problem is to wake people from their stupor. To make them realize that the resources are not unlimited and that the time is running out.

The danger of carbon offset model is that it is the easy way out. As Kevin Anderson, a scientist with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research puts it, “Offsetting is a dangerous delaying technique because it helps us avoid tackling the task [of dealing with climate change]… It helps us sleep well at night when we shouldn’t sleep well at night.”

I think more than the star-crusted, latest new fad of buying carbon credits, what Saudi Arabia needs is a new model of carbon offset; a model where companies can offset their emissions by investing in their own renewable resources and energy-efficient products. A lot of local companies are already shifting to green products but what is needed is to link it with their emissions through their own customized carbon offset model.

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Once the region’s climate skeptic, Saudi Arabia is slowly shifting towards a more progressive stance ahead of the climate summit in Qatar

It’s not long now till the climate summit follow up to Durban, is held in Qatar later this year. And in response to the eyes that will be soon focusing on the Middle East, it appears that climate skeptics are being pushed away to the sidelines – if temporarily. In Saudi Arabia, the notoriously climate skeptic Mohammed Al-Sabban has been replaced by the well-respected Khalid Abuleif as the leading voice at the climate negotiations for the country. Kelly Rigg at HuffPost argues that this and a recent speech by the oil minister shows that Saudi may finally be prepared to play “a more progressive and less obstructionist role in the negotiations.”

At the Bonn climate talks, Saudi Arabia hit the headlines for trying to delay the progress by insisting that an agreement wasn’t necessary for another 18 months. For this and their demand to receive compensation for the loss of oil revenue in a post-oil future, Saudi Arabia was awarded the ‘Fossil of the Day’ by the Climate Action Network, an alliance of various green NGO’s. At Durban, Saudi was equally dubious about the talks and feared being singled out as an environmental culprit. The oil-rich country also sees a climate deal as a greater threat than competition from oil rivals.

Saudi’s (now replaced) lead climate negotiator Mohammed Al-Sabban also told BBC News in 2009 that, “Climate is changing for thousands of years, but for natural and not human-induced reasons. So, whatever the international community does to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have no effect on the climate’s natural variability.”

However, in a speech delivered in late January the Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said: “Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity’s most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role. We are doing this in Saudi Arabia.”

The shift in rhetoric is quite something. Indeed, Rigg spoke to Wael Hmaidan of IndyACT who said that having the conference in the Arabian Gulf could well inspire change. “In practice this will mean higher-level involvement of decision makers, ruling families, civil society, and other stakeholders,” he said. “This could lead to more awareness of the importance of climate change, and thus a more progressive regional position in the negotiations.”

This change should, however, be taken with a pinch of salt. At this stage it’s hard to tell whether these changes signal a real shift in views or whether this is just window dressing in time for the Qatar summit. Even so, as Rigg remarks “When even the world’s leading oil supplier says it’s time to deal with climate change, it’s a strong sign that the decade-long climate denial campaign has failed.”

Huff Post Green

: Image via Bakar_88/flickr.

For more on Saudi and climate talks see:

Could Saudi Arabia become the Saudi Arabia of Solar?

Guide to Durban Talks and the Oil-Rich Middle East

Bonn: The Latest Climate Talks and the Middle East

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Gulf States have been drilling oil for decades now. Can we really get them to co-operate at the upcoming climate summit in Durban and re-think oil?

Climate negotiations to get world leaders to agree to a fair and binding agreement that will keep climate change in check have been ticking away in the background for a while now. Around six months ago, climate negotiations continued in Bonn and sadly, the Middle East wasn’t exactly making a positive contribution. Saudi Arabia was criticized for its attempts to delay progress and Kuwait, Oman and Qatar were awarded the ‘Fossil of the Day’ title for holding up the talks. So will this year be any different?

Well, not really. According to Gustav Boethius, a researcher at the Middle East Institute who is interested in energy security and climate change in the Gulf nations, unless oil-rich countries are presented with an alternative route to continue their economic development they will struggle to support a climate deal.

Saudi Arabia Has A Lot (Of Money) To Lose From Climate Deal

However, that doesn’t mean the Gulf nations are one monolith with the same agenda- rather they have slightly different economies which mean they have different stances. Saudi Arabia relies heavily on oil and so any attempt to limit its use (to cut carbon emissions) is seen as a threat to its economy.

In the past, representatives have tried to delay a climate agreement and demanded compensation for any lost oil revenue caused by a climate deal. Boethius argues that Saudis fear being singled out as an environmental culprit and see a climate deal as a greater threat than competition from oil rivals. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman share the same concerns about the economic impact of a climate deal.

Qatar’s Bid To Host Future Climate Summit

Qatar plays a more complex role.  Boethius states that although the country hasn’t been outspoken on the issue, behind the scenes they are playing a constructive role and are one of two bidders hoping to host the next climate summit. “Qatar’s willingness to play this role [host for climate summit], and to accept such a political risk, should be seen as a genuine effort to bridge the gap between the talks’ opposing camps in order to achieve a positive outcome,” argues Boethius.

Taking a more progressive stance is the United Arab Emirates. They are a lot more open about their level of commitment and their limitations; as such they are playing a more constructive role at the talks.

Providing Alternative Economic Options To Oil

However, Boethius states that the UAE can afford to take this stance, as unlike Saudi Arabia, its economy doesn’t rely so heavily on hydrocarbons. And Qatar’s cleaner gas reserves are a greener alternative to oil. In sum, “when it comes to the GCC, the level of unwillingness to curb global greenhouse gas emission appears to be directly related to the degree of fiscal dependence on fossil fuel exports.”

Consequently, the climate talks will only get oil-rich countries on board with cutting carbon if they provide the hydrocarbon exporting countries with other economic options. Until then, we aren’t likely to see the Gulf nations of the Middle East embracing a climate deal.

::  Gustav Boethius at Eco-Business.com

: Image via David C. Foster/flickr.

For more on the climate talks see:

Faith Leader Prepare For Upcoming Climate Summit In South Africa

Bonn: The Latest Climate Talks and The Middle East

Cancun Ends On Slightly Better Note Than Copenhagen

The Middle Eastern View Of Copenhagen

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It’s official: energy experts predict that solar power will be the most important source of energy in the Middle East within the next decade

There’s no getting away from the fact that the Middle East is sunny – as such, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that solar power is the way to go. Countries such as Egypt and Lebanon as well more oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are already building up their solar power resources. Even so, overall progress is patchy and with some nations such as Jordan embracing nuclear and Israel still considering oil shale it seems the message hasn’t quite reached all ears.

This week’s announcement by energy experts during a World Economic Forum event that regional governments need to shift to clean, renewable energy resources should, however, go some way to rectifying the situation.

Solar As The Most Important Source of Future Energy

Speaking in Jordan, energy experts urged Arab nations to move away from oil dependence and explore the high potential of solar energy as the Middle East has the most sunny daylight hours of any region in the world. “Solar energy is efficient and abundant in the Arab world. Studies indicate that solar energy in the Middle East is twice the amount that could be collected in the US,” Mohammad Barmawi, chairman of the Oman-based MB Holding Company, told the Jordan Times.

Barmawi also called for greater regional co-operation which could include a common electric grid among the North African countries as well as investment in clean and renewable energy sources. The “Future of energy governance” event was held on Sunday as part of the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World.

Link Between Energy, Water & Food

Rabi Mohtar, executive director of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, also highlighted the link between water and energy efficiency (and subsequently food security). He called on Arab governments to insists that new energy companies keep their water consumption in check to preserve as much water as possible.

Although there are predictions that oil will remain the key source of energy in the Arab world until the year 2025, the experts urged Arab nations to start seriously exploring green, clean and sustainable alternatives now.

::Jordan Times

: Image via Jasondbay/flickr.

For more on solar power in the region see:

3 Eco-Svelte Energy Slashing Contracts Awarded In Lebanon

Abu Dhabi Prince Shames White House By Crowing Court Roof With Solar Panels

Saudi Island Gets Solarized with a 500KW Solar Plant

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It has long been established that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have enough solar energy to power the world. Trouble is, how do we get projects off the ground and keep them running? A new CSP Today free webinar being held on April 6, will provide some clues. 

Nazar Hassan, Deputy Director of the UNESCO Cario Regional Bureau, will present a discussion on ‘North-South strategic partnerships that can promote technology transfer of renewable energy technologies in the MENA region.

He will offer tips on how to implement local manufacturing in order to drive costs down and capitalize on European exports – all in order to make solar the next best thing since slice bread. To reserve your spot, please visit: CSP Today

Read more on solar energy in the Middle East:

MENA’s Top 5 Ideal Countries For Solar Generation

What is the Future of MENA Solar with the Region in Chaos?

The Early Bird Gets the Sun: Save on 2011 MENASOL Conference

image of solar eclipse via hinkelstone

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In 2008, Israel’s Ministry of Infrastructure granted Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI) the right to produce gas and liquid fuel from oil shale in the Elah Valley, where David fought Goliath, without requiring an environmental impact assessment or master plan. (Al Gore calls oil shale “utter insanity”). On 15 August, 2010, the Union for Environmental Defense challenged the legality of those rights, and requested a revocation of IEI’s mining license from the Israeli High Court. A court date is still pending.

The Ministry of Environment pledged it would insist the company produce an environmental impact study prior to proceeding with their pilot project. But last week Globes announced that Lord Jacob Rothschild (2nd cousin to eco-ambassador David de Rothschild) and Rupert Murdoch purchased shares worth $11 million in Genie Oil and Gas Inc., the company that owns 89% of IEI, adding formidable power to the program.

The media mogul told Globes “If Genie’s effort to develop shale oil is successful, as I believe it will be, then the news we’ll report in the coming decades will reflect a more prosperous, more democratic, and more secure world.” No mention has been made of the pending court case.     Save Adullam has worked tirelessly with a posse of environmental and legal experts to protect what is not only a pristine home environment, but an international tourist attraction, from an experimental extraction technology that has not been previously sanctioned.

“The license allows the IEI company to drill down several hundred meters, heat the ground to 300-350° C
(560-660° F), and pump the released gases and organic materials to the surface for refinement into fuel products,” according to Save Adullam spokesperson Rachel Jacobson.

Atmospheric scientist Dr. Arye Vanger told the group that the oil shale under consideration is
approximately six percent sulfur, three times the sulfur concentration found in rich fuel, itself a major pollutant.

It is also possible that corrosive and toxic chemicals, organic materials, and chemical by-products would be leaked into the ground and water supply if correct procedures are not followed.

The non-government organization’s court plea argues that the project undermines the government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases and develop renewable energy sources, and challenges the legality of proceeding without due public process, a master plan, and an environmental feasibility study.

“The Ministry of Infrastructure is leading us toward environmental disaster… In essence, the Ministry is allowing a private company to use the Adullam region as a ‘guinea pig’ for testing new and aggressive technology,” according to Mr. Amit Bracha, Executive Director of the Union for Environmental Defense.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Environment has promised to “do everything it its power to preserve the region’s landscape,” and has insisted that IEI/Genie produce an environmental impact study and comply with local planning and building codes before any pilot tests proceed.

:: Save Adullam

More on the oil-shale exploration in Adullam District:

David de Rothschild Responds To Green Prophet’s Oil-Shale Plea

Open Letter To David de Rothschild: Stop Your Family’s Oil Shale

Israeli Citizen Group “Save Adullam” To Fight Oil Shale Plans

image via brett.wagner

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Fasting is a natural, religious and spiritual affair which is practised by many people all over the world. Muslims give up food and drink between sunrise and sunset for an entire month during Ramadan, Christians give up luxuries during Lent, and Jews abstain from food during Yom Kippur. But can these practices be transferred onto the green agenda to help protect the planet from the worst effects of climate change? Well, one UK-based Christian organisation thinks so and on 3 October, it is launching an Oil Fast as part of its ‘Carbon Exodus’.

Operation Noah is a Christian organisation providing focus and leadership in response to the growing threat of climate change. It states that it is informed by the science of climate change, motivated by faith, and driven by the hope that society can be transformed and enriched through radical change in lifestyles and patterns of consumption. The organisation highlights the need to urgently decarbonise the economy by 2030 so that catastrophic climate change does not endanger God’s creations.

A Modern-Day Carbon Exodus

They state that we are all simply ‘hooked’ on oil, dependent on it in our daily lives and yet few of us actually realise the serious consequences of this addiction. (No, we’re not taking about that lovely green-tinged stuff that you add to your salads but the tarry, nasty slick stuff that comes from the ground.) In response, Operation Noah is “calling on Christians to stop for a day and take stock of our joint and personal complicity in the ongoing drive to exploit ever more challenging and inaccessible oil reserves.”

As part of their ‘Carbon Exodus’- inspired by the journey of Moses away from bondage in Egypt- they are taking a journey away from carbon dependence. Part of this includes the Oil fast where churches around the country will hold a service highlighting the dire consequences of oil-dependence on the people and planet. The Spring 2010 oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that caused environmental destruction, loss of livelihoods as well as incurring huge costs, perfectly illustrates the real costs of dependence on oil.

A brilliant guide has also been put together to help provide guidance and practical advice on how to reduce your daily dependence on oil. Firstly, the depth to which our daily lives are intertwined in oil is examined: crude oil is refined into gas, petrol, tar, plastics, synthetic clothing, medication, piping for water, sewage and gas supplies and is even used in candles. So what can you do?

Simple Steps Towards A Sustainable Lifestyle

Well, suggestions are broken off into six sections for various areas of our daily lives. For example for travel, they recommend that you lift share, cycle or even rediscover the joys of walking. For food, local and organic produce is recommended as well reducing the consumption of meat and produce that is out of season.

To reduce the carbon-footprint of our homes, they suggest switching to green electricity, installing solar panels and saving water using flush savers and drinking tap water rather than buying bottled water.

To minimise the impact of the stuff we buy, the guide states that it’s best to buy clothes made from natural products, to carry around a re-usable bag or maybe have a ‘stuff’ free day where you don’t buy any more things. Finally, some carbon-free fun is encouraged in the form of picnics, book reading, sketching or arranging a communal activity such as football!

So switch off your TV, get outside and enjoy nature. Although the event is aimed at Christians, it’s such a great initiative that everyone- religious or not- should consider joining in. After all, we could all do with reducing our destructive addiction to oil.

:: Top image via Marinephotobank and lower image via Horia Varlan

For More On Faith and Sustainability See:

Jordan To Host Islam And Environment Event

Great Examples Of ‘Hima’ Or Protected Are as In The Middle East

And Ye Shall Live in Sustainable Booths

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With the opening Monday of the 15^th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen, some of the discussions taking place there will deal with finding “greener” solutions to ground transportation, particularly automobiles and other vehicles which are now considered as being one of the major forms or air polluters on our planet.

Car companies in particular, like Better Place and MethaEnergy,  plan to promote products at the conference.

MethaEnergy’s technology is based on a unique fuel cell design using methanol, a highly flammable compound that is produced from the combination of carbon monoxide gas with hydrogen, and is often produced from natural gas, a very available commodity in some parts of the Middle East, including Qatar – and in the near future, Israel.

As compared with local Middle East companies involved in producing a practical electric car, such as Better Place,  which will be exhibiting and demonstrating their electric cars and specially designed batteries and charging terminals made with Renault at the COP15 conference, MethaEnergy will demonstrate its unique Serenus fuel cell packages which the company claims will power an electric car up to 500 kilometers before needing recharging.

The fuel cells that provide the power are also very unique in that they will be powered by methanol and can be “recharged” very quickly – in only a matter of a few minutes. The company also claims that their fuel cells only utilize about 5% of the total energy needed to operate them, as compared to 25% in other fuel cells currently in use today.

Methanol can be made from natural gas, which will soon be a common fuel even for fuel-starved countries like Israel, thanks to the development of some large underwater natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. These gas fields, being developed by the Yam Tethys exploration company, a subsidiary of  Yitzhak Tshuva’s Delek Motors will be able to supply some of Israel’s energy needs for the foreseeable future.

While still a fossil fuel, natural gas is much cleaner than distilled petroleum products: and by using small amounts to power fuel cells for cars and even light aircraft, there’s no reason why MethaEnergy’s technology would not work in Israel as well.

Naturally, this would be in competition with Better Place, who plan a small revolution: to install their electric car battery recharging stations in large parking lots, such as those found at Israel Railways train stations .

The fuel cell developed by MethaEnergy is said to be much lower in cost than competitive technologies and can operate on either natural or liquid petroleum gas. While it’s not pollution free, like solar energy is, it is much better for the environment than petroleum.  And that in itself is something worth considering.

Photo via www.methaenergy.com

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Being an environmentally-conscious website, many articles posted here on Green Prophet have tried to show the bad side of  the overuse of fossil fuels and the damage they have done to our planet – especially in regards to global warming and climate change. This is especially true in respect to my last article where I tried to bring to light the “downside” of trying to produce high grade petroleum from oil sands located deep beneath the ground in a place called Long Lake, in Alberta Canada.

In our present-day energy situation, the need for large quantities of oil for energy is still very much a fact of life. Whether it is found in the Middle East, the North Sea, South America, or even “trapped” inside underground mineral deposits such as oil shale, coal,  oil sands or tar deposits like the La Bera tar pits  in Los Angeles California, oil company geologists and scientists will continue to find ways to “free” these underground fossilized remains of prehistoric earth for years to come.

Although the use of oil for energy is raising concern among environmentalists (Peak Oil), it wasn’t so long ago that oil was the driving force behind the industrial and commercial innovations that most of us now take for granted. I grew up in Oklahoma where drilling for “crude” was an important part of an economy that otherwise was mostly agrarian in nature, with wheat, cotton, and cattle raising being some of the important “cash crops”. Back in the 1930’s, when a lot of people, including my dad, got into the oil business, oil could be found in depths as shallow as 200 feet. Oil fields literally  sprang up on the Oklahoma prairies overnight and Oklahoma’s State capital building in Oklahoma City is located on what was once a large producing oil field with “donkey” pumping units on the Capital grounds still bringing up crude oil to this day.

Oil was cheap and plentiful back in the 1930’s even though it began to be imported from the “A-rabs” (as the locals called them) in the Middle East, which got its big boost when then President Franklin D. Roosevelt cut a deal with Ibin Saud, the King of Arabia,  which later became known as Saudi Arabia, after the Saudi Royal Family. But despite all that, plenty of domestic crude oil was still available in both Oklahoma and Texas, and other parts of the USA as well – including California, where the recent movie There Will be Blood, starring Daniel Day Lewis, was filmed.  

All of us in my “baby boom” generation grew up on cheap gasoline and hot cars. In fact, even the most dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist has to admit that literally everything we have today in the way of creature comforts and modern consumer products came in one form or another from oil. Even in the 1960’s, oil was still relatively cheap and gasoline was selling for as low as 30 cents a gallon (even cheaper during “gas wars” between gas station companies).

A few futurist thinkers, including science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, did start warning people in the 1950’s that sooner of later oil would run out (Peak Oil), or become scarcer and thus more expensive. And a few people even talked about possible environmental damage from overuse of oil. But as a whole, people couldn’t care less, and still had plenty of cheap gasoline to drive their cars to the charcoal hamburger restaurants to buy a Theta Burger.

So here we are now, nearly 10 years into the year 2000, with greenhouse gases, global warming, climate change and Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his crusade against global warming. But despite all the environmental problems and attempts to develop alternative and renewable energy, the world is still very hungry for that black stuff that folks in my neck of the woods used to call Texas Tea. And for a long time to come people will still want this stuff to keep their economies going. Ask the Chinese, now the No. 2 users of oil in the world after America,  and probably one of the main contributors to the present state of the world environment, including melting polar ice and glaciers.

No, I’m not going to castigate companies like Exxon (now cooperating with Ben Gurion University on renewables), BP, and even Opti Canada Inc., for doing what they’re doing. They’re only accommodating to people’s needs; which for the time being is still centered around fossil fuels and not solar energy and wind turbines.  Israel has never had much oil, and the newly discovered natural gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean have still not been fully explored. So with this in mind, Israel is in a better position to develop other forms of energy, especially in light of less oil being available due to increasing political realities.

Maybe in a hundred years or so, the situation will be different concerning the use of renewable energy over oil – if we all can last that long.

(Photo via www.shorpy.com)

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The Israeli oil company Paz, which owns a chain of gas stations around the country, announced today that it will join the solar energy market.

They’ve created a new business unit called Paz Solar to market and install photovoltaic energy systems for producing electricity using photovoltaic technologies, according to Globes.

At a press conference today the company said that it plans on leading the solar energy market in Israel, an ambitious plan perhaps now that foreign companies like SunEdison, with more experience in solar power, have already started moving in. Paz says they will lead based on equipment they provide and the amount of power they will produce. And the focus will remain in Israel. 

“We are a country with 7.2 million people and if we add the energy sector in Judea, Samaria and Gaza we will reach 10 million residents. That is not a small country but a medium-sized country. Israel is our main target but if there will be interesting opportunities abroad we will consider them,” Paz chairman Zadik Bino. 

::Globes

More sunny solar power news:

1. America’s SunEdison Opens Sunny Solar Energy Office in Israel 
2. Siemens Mulls Buying Israeli Solar Company Solel 
3. Israel’s Public Housing Blocks to Get Solar Roofs
4. Lots of Sunshine Power in the Holy Land as China and Israel Complete Solar Plant 
5. Siemens On A Solar Streak With Investment News Around Arava Power

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