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