Eilat - Eilot   

The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Administration, operating under the regional municipalities, has been promoting Renewable Energy as a catalyst for regional development for the last 4 years.  Starting with a vision to develop Israel's sun drenched desert and Red Sea resort local, its early pioneers established the Administration to guide the implementation of Israel's and the worlds first energy independent region.

The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Administration launched the Eilat-Eilot Alternative Energy Project to demonstrate a model for solving the world's energy crisis by engaging and advancing all necessary social sectors and technologies and focusing them on a the cohesive but multifaceted goal that would create an energy independent region energized by vibrant substantial regional commercial development and business opportunities.

Eilat and the Eilot Region is distant from the center of Israel, and wishes to expand its populations by attracting a high caliber of professionals that will come to the region and become integrated in community life and advance new fields of business.  The burgeoning field of renewable energy creates new and diverse technological and scientific jobs based on excellent natural and human resources.

The activities includes renewable energy education, R&D, commercialization and Pilot projects, renewable energy production, energy conservation, branding and advancing suitable regulation.  The project has received wide recognition by the government and public sphere.

The Eilat Region is located at the southern most tip of Israel on the beaches of the Red Sea.  Its distance from Israel's population center presents the perfect challenge and opportunity suited to a revolutionary project of this kind.  The R.E. Administration's goals includes helping grow the local population and community by attracting high caliber of professionals drawn to this national project. The exciting opportunities for professional advancement will be generated by the business, technology, research and deployment underway.

Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Administration

The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Project marks four years of operation during which it has merited growing recognition and success. This years 2010 Conference in Eilat will include the unveiling of a proposed model for dealing with the energy crisis through the promotion of the key elements required by developed nations to shape a sustainable energy future.  These include raising awareness and education, research and development, the commercialization of technology, production of energy from renewable resources, energy conservation and supportive regulation. The Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Administration, initiator and host of the conference is also the organizing body implementing this ambitious program in the southern Arava desert whose goal it is to generate100% of its own regional energy within a decade while demonstrating an example of how energy independence can be spurred forward by commercial and technology opportunities. Read More

• Timna Renewable Energy Park - Promoting in cooperation with the government the 250 MW Timna Renewable Energy Park... Read More
  which is the physical centerpiece of the region’s renewable energy effort. The planned projects include Solar Thermal power plants, PV and CPV farms, the production of biogas from municipal waste, a Test Bed and the Eilat-Eilot R.E. Administration facilities including offices, technological center and a visitor's center. Hide
• Technological Renewable Energy Center... Read More
  A government resolution was passed for issuing a tender for the construction of a renewable energy technological center in the Negev and the Arava. The R.E. Administration is assembling a consortium to compete in the tender. Hide
• Commercialization of Innovative R.E. Technologies - Setting up R.E. pilots and giving guidance to R.E. startups.  The administration has completed the construction of AORA's hybrid solar tower at Kibbutz Samar... Read More
  with an installed capacity of 100 kW. Negotiations are also underway with other companies to establish additional pilots.  The administration organized an investment and business opportunities forum that took place in Toronto in September 2009. Hide
• PV Power Plants - Promoting regulatory and zoning issues in order to enable the erection of 5 MW PV farms on different agriculture and industrial lands, primarily the 10 Kibbutzim in the region… Read More
  The Administration is currently promoting a master plan that will allocate for Alternative Energy deployment in each kibbutz 0.2 sq km in the first phase and up to 0.8 sq KM in later stage.  There are also Industrial zones in the region are also ideal locations for an expedited zoning process, to erect PV farms. Hide
• Distributed R.E. Production - Promoting distributed R.E. production via solar rooftops and small wind turbines, with an emphasis on 50 kWp installation on public and private roofs in the region.
• R&D - Establishing a top-notch Renewable Energy R&D department in the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Kibbutz Ketura to encourage and coordinate the region's many diverse existing R&D activities.
• Energy saving Working with a national consortium of local energy-saving companies (the Israel Energy & Security Consortium) to find creative ways to implement energy-saving solutions in regional communities, including hotels in Eilat.
• Branding the region as a leader in the renewable energy field.  The administration holds each year Israel's leading renewable energy conference in Eilat
• Awareness and Education - Various activities and workshops including writing an R.E. educational program for all institutions from kindergarten to high school, with the full guidance of the ministry of the Education.