Water Free Cleaning of Solar Panels
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Ecoppia, makes robotic solar array cleaning solution that keeps photovoltaic panels at peak performance, even in the toughest desert conditions.
Close to 200 countries agreed to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases they emit — and Israeli technology can help make that happen.
Among the technologies Gabbay was referring to was one by Ecoppia, makers of a robotic solar array cleaning solution that keeps photovoltaic panels at peak performance, even in the toughest desert conditions. Ecoppia was part of the Israeli delegation to the just-concluded COP 21 climate conference. Right before the event, the company announced that it would be retrofitting one of Israel’s biggest solar fields with its autonomous, water-free cleaning system.
Eran Meller, CEO of Ecoppia, said that his company’s solution is “the next step for the solar industry. We’re seeing significant value creation in all the projects we’re currently involved in, both here in the Middle East and in India. For many of the big industry players, a solution that can clean panels nightly, can respond instantly to weather and is waterless — we feel solutions like ours have the potential to become the industry standard.”
Ecoppia’s new work site is a 40 MW PV solar site jointly owned by EDF RE and Arava Power, located in southern Israel’s Arava desert — next to the Jordanian border and 20 and 60 miles from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, respectively. The hundreds of panels at the site join the 5 million or so solar panels the company’s technology cleans every month.
“It’s very exciting to see the progress Ecoppia is making in terms of winning large clients,” said Ron Adam, the permanent representative of Israel to IRENA (the UN International Renewable Energy Agency). “It’s because of promising technology like theirs that we believe Israel has a bright future in the International Solar Industry and why Ecoppia was chosen to take part in a side event on ‘Israeli Innovation in response to climate change’ at COP 21.”
Source: Times of Israel
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