September 2011 - I-Micronews
September 2011 - I-Micronews
September 2011 - I-Micronews
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processing businesses. The kibbutz uses high volumes of 75°-80°C<br />
water for sterilization in its canning plant and in its dairy, as well as for<br />
the heat for incubating eggs. A 5000 gallon storage tank often provides<br />
enough hot water for residents’ nighttime use, though of course there is<br />
also a backup system. The kibbutz also harvests the wine grapes from<br />
the vineyard under the trackers. Electricity is sold into the grid to earn<br />
Israel’s high feed- in tariff.<br />
ZenithSolar also has an agreement with the government of China’s Gansu<br />
province for two 10MW demonstration installations, one for centralized<br />
water heating for a residential neighborhood, one for a metal processing<br />
plant, even though purely on cost there is no way the HCPV system can<br />
compete with the very low rates for the cheap, low grade coal now used<br />
there. But the very cold and dry climate at 2000M elevation at the edge<br />
of the Gobi desert has very high DNI that should be ideal for HCPV, the<br />
systems would reduce the heavy pollution from burning the low grade<br />
coal, and ZenithSolar has agreed to move manufacturing there for clean<br />
tech local jobs and, presumably, technology development. Details will<br />
take a while longer to work out before production starts.<br />
“Things are changing very fast in China,” says Segev. “China, India and<br />
Africa will be most of the solar market in the future just because most<br />
of the energy need will be there.”<br />
Paula Doe for Yole Développement<br />
Vahan Garboushian, Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and<br />
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Amonix<br />
Mr. Garboushian has pioneered the development of concentrated<br />
photovoltaic (CPV) technology since launching Amonix in 1989;<br />
his passion, vision, and leadership over the past 20 years have made<br />
Amonix the most efficient, reliable CPV technology on the market today.<br />
Nancy Hartsoch, Vice President of Marketing and Business<br />
Development, SolFocus<br />
She is responsibe for the company’s global marketing activities and<br />
ROW business development activities. Nancy is also currently the<br />
Chairman of the CPV Consortium, a global industry organization in the<br />
CPV market segment. Prior to joining SolFocus she was CEO of Pacific<br />
Technology Group which she co-founded in partnership with Taiwan-based Acer<br />
Labs Inc. (ALi) to provide marketing, sales and applications engineering to launch<br />
an existing product line into the global market. Her 25 years of technology<br />
experience include five years as COO and VP of Marketing and Sales for Ali.<br />
Roy Segev, Founder & CEO, ZenithSolar<br />
Roy has close to 20 years of experience in Israeli and global<br />
high-tech businesses. In 2006, Roy founded ZenithSolar in order to<br />
provide comprehensive energy via a distributed network. Prior to<br />
founding ZenithSolar, Roy was a partner at Sadot, a venture capital<br />
fund that invests in early stage technology companies. Previously<br />
Roy was responsible for the finance and business development of “Magink_,<br />
a leading company in the digital ink technology for signs and billboards.<br />
Roy holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from Hebrew University and a<br />
M.Sc. from Boston University.<br />
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