A Joint initiative undertaken by 12 companies, most of them German, to build solar-power systems in the Middle East and North Africa, and to transmit the resulting electricity to Europe via undersea cables. By 2050 the project is supposed to supply 15% of the Continent’s electricity as well as most of that in the Middle …
Unit of GWP emissions that reflects for that amount of composition of greenhouse gasses the amount of CO2 that creates the potential for greenhouse affect similar to a period of hundred years Six greenhouse gases are limited by the Kyoto Protocol. Each gas has a different global warming potential. The overall warming effect of this …
American solar energy company that serves 20 million customers around the world, employs 13,000 workers and had an income of $11 billion in 2008. Sempra established an Israeli subsidiary called Negev Solar
Levelized cost represents the present value of the total cost of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed economic life, converted to equal annual payments and expressed in terms of real dollars to remove the impact of inflation. Levelized costs, which reflect overnight capital costs, fuel cost, fixed and variable O&M cost are …
Refers to a supply of gas which the seller is not permitted to interrupt. Covers both tariff supplies and firm contract supplies. It is gas sold on a continuous basis and generally on long term contracts. A firm contract provides power plant operators with an agreed-upon capacity for the producer or pipeline to supply natural …
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.
Generally reserves refer to the volume of technically and commercially recoverable hydrocarbons in an oil and/or gas reservoir (as opposed to the total volume of oil or gas in place, much of which may not be recoverable using current technology and in current market conditions). According to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, reserves are “those …
Method for testing of pipeline welds that is superior to the regular NDT non-destructive testing or radiography. AUT inspection utilizes techniques with zoned inspection and time of flight diffraction (ToFD) techniques. The system provides an adequate number of inspection channels and is designed with sufficient beam overlap to ensure the complete volumetric examination of the …
During the first half of 2004, the Natural Gas Authority conducted a survey to identify present and future natural gas consumers. As part of the survey, 2000 potential customers and plants were sampled, within a radius of 30 km from the transmission system, according to National Outline Plan 37. The MNI estimates that demand for …
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In July 2008, Israel’s Public Utilities Authority agreed to feed-in tariff of NIS 2.01 for small solar-power arrays of between 15 to 50 kW in the trade and agriculture sector or four times the average consumer price for entities that got a license in 2008. Those that start in 2009, the tariff has been decreased …
