Category: General

Unpackaged solid cargo such as coal, ore and grain.

The soot that results from the uncompleted combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels and biomass (wood, animal dung, etc.). It is the most potent climate-warming aerosol. Unlike greenhouse gases, which trap infrared radiation that is already in the Earth’s atmosphere, these particles absorb all wavelengths of sunlight and then re-emit this energy as infrared radiation.

Action that helps cope with the effects of climate change – for example construction of barriers to protect against rising sea levels, or conversion to crops capable of surviving high temperatures and drought

States that have a renewable electricity mandate, requiring that a certain amount of their electricity come from renewable sources by a given year. This policy has been adopted by nearly half of the States in the US.

Siemens Israel is the Regional Company representing the global Siemens Company in Israel, now bringing the cutting edge technology, exceptional quality and vast capabilities of the Siemens brand to the Israeli market

Pirolysis is the process of transforming organic components into gasses

CO2, CO, PM/2.5, PM/10, NOx, SO2

Strategies are sets of policies under the control of a government and other decision makers involved in making decisions about the supply of electricity or energy policy in general. These include decisions about the capacity of new generating plants and the types of fuel to be consumed; decisions about investments in supporting energy infrastructure, such as pipelines and LNG terminals; levels of mandated reserve generating capacity; rules setting minimum or maximum shares of generating capacity by fuel used; dispatch order of electricity generation; administrative controls on land use; policies to control GHG-emission levels; policies regarding electricity pricing by segments; policies regarding subsidies offered; regarding desired offsets or trade-offs between security of supply, price and emission levels. The important issue is for decision makers to understand what the trade-offs are and what drives the differences between strategies, so that in the final analysis policy course will result from political processes and discourses and political trade-offs. A decision about priorities among different criteria, such as cost versus the depletion of indigenous natural gas supplies (namely where domestic depletion or cost is less of a concern. If cost is less of a concern then Israel can focus more on LNG)

In October 2009, Siemens sealed a deal to acquire Solel Solar Systems paying $418 million for the Beit Shemesh-based solarthermal energy systems manufacturer. Solel Solar is one of the world’s two leading suppliers of solar receivers – key components of parabolic trough power plants.