Rotem Industrial Park  |  Demonstration Field at Ketura  |  Solar Tower at Samar
Departing from Tel Aviv, full day tour, Arrival at 4:00 p.m. to Eilat

07:30           Pick-up from hotel in Tel Aviv

07:30-09:30  Drive to Rotem Industrial Park

09:30-11:30  Visit to Rotem Industrial Park, with demonstrations

Rotem Industrial Park is a modern technological complex for hi-tech industries, established by Rotem Industries. The park offers a range of advantages that create an ideal environment for technological and scientific development projects. Entrepreneurs and investors can find unprecedented opportunities for implementing novel initiatives, under unequalled incubator conditions from the set-up stage through to marketing.

We will visit:

• Bright Source Energy - a leading developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants
• HelioFocus - develops a full system solution for providing solar heat using air as a heat transfer fluid
• Brenmiller Energy - Solar-thermal power, or concentrated solar, plants use mirrors that focus sunlight to produce steam and drive turbines

11:30-13:30  Drive to Arava

Demonstration Field at Ketura​

• ​A Village of Off-Grid Solutions: At the initiative of the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy project, a new center for off-grid solutions, named the EE Hub, was founded at Kibbutz Ketura. The purpose of the EE Hub is to bring off-grid technology into developing markets by means of strategic partnerships in the target countries. The center is suited to established companies and start-ups with energy and water products, with off-grid products, and with products aimed at the developing market. The center offers space for experiments; demonstrations; exposure, including integration with other solutions, entry support into the target market (links to local distributors, aid organizations, and more); and help in raising capital from international funding organizations. The center will be launched during the 2014 Eilat-Eilot Conference.
  
  Presenting Companies:

  PowerPractical	A U.S based company that manufactures equipment that transfers heat energy into electricty		Energy
  Homebiogas	Sophisticated and efficient biogas system, deal with organic waste and returned it to biogas- saving costs and contributing the environment		Energy
  Ulysses	A product for management of minigrid - provides online data on energy use from any corner of the world		Energy
  Karnaf	Locks for solar panels - unique simple and strong solutions against theft of panels		Security
  EWB	Engineers Without Borders Israel will be presenting their projects in Africa during the tour in the village

• Ketura Solar Field: The field covers 80 dunams (approximately 20 acres) and generates 4.95 megawatts of green, clean electricity. The field consists of 18,500 photovoltaic panels that together produce approximately 9 million kilowatt-hours per year. Over the next twenty years, the field is projected to save 125,000 tons of carbon dioxide from being produced - an accomplishment comparable to the effect of planting 180,000 trees.  In the past two years, seven additional solar fields have been set up in the Arava, and another power station in the 40-megawatt range is currently being built at Ketura. 

• Eccopia, Robotic Cleaning of Solar Panels: The Ketura field uses innovative cleaning of solar panels, the first of its kind - remote-controlled, self-powering robots. The panel cleaning is accomplished by means of microfibers and a gentle flow of air, with not a drop of water.

Solar Tower at Samar

This thermo-solar installation, from the EDIG/Aora Company, consists of a 30-meter solar tower commanding a field of 30 heliostatic mirrors (mirrors that follow the sun) for concentrating sunlight toward the top of the tower and heating the air there to 1000°C to run turbines that yield 100 kilowatts of electricity and 170 kilowatts of heat.  The tower is Israel’s first thermo-solar station to furnish electricity from solar energy directly to the national electric grid.

15:30-16:30  Drive to Eilat

For further details and registration to the Tour, please contact:
Adi Bokobza, The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute
Tel: 972-3-5142876, Email: adib@export.gov.il