Solar Energy

Selling light after dark: Satellite designed to reflect sunlight to Earth approved by FCC

The Earendil-1 satellite, created by startup Reflect Orbital, contains a thin-film reflector that can direct “abundant sunlight” to specific locations at specific times, including night time

Earendil-1
The offices at nGrid.

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

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'

 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


Israel to power Zambia with $100m. solar-wind energy project

The $100 million investment in the power station was finalized last week during the visit of Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema to Israel.

 From right: Gigawatt Global CEO Josef Abramowitz, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, President Isaac Herzog and a Zambian student studying in Israel at the President's Residence in August 2023.

SodaStream pledges 100% renewable energy by 2023

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

 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.

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.

 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."

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.

 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.

 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

 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.

 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.

 Solar panels (illustrative)