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Tilt up...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eISRAEL SOLAR TOWER SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5.28SHOTLIST:Ashalim, Negev desert, Israel - 22 December 20161. Tilt up from field of mirrors (called heliostats) to world's tallest solar tower 2. Travelling shot of mirrors, world's tallest solar tower in background3. Aerial shot of mirrors4. Tilt up of solar tower, boiler on the right , which will be installed at the top of tower 5. Eran Gartner, CEO of Megalim Power standing on top of tower taking photos of mirror field 6. Zoom out of bulldozer driving through the mirrors 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eran Gartner, CEO of Megalim Power Ltd: \"Our power station is what's called \"concentrated solar power \" which means we have 50,000 mirrors called heliostats, with a million sq. meters of reflective surface concentrating all of the sunlight on to the solar tower right behind me. The solar tower behind me will ultimately be 250 meters tall, the tallest solar tower in the world, and at the top of it will be located our boiler, which collects the sun's rays and converts them, heats water to steam, to turn the turbine in a conventional power plant.\"8. Close of top of the solar tower and boiler on right9. Mid of worker on crane10. Zoom in on mirrors11. Various of the mirrors12. Tracking shot from car of solar tower 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eran Gartner, CEO, Megalim Power Ltd: \"The reason our tower is the tallest tower in the world is not that we were seeking to break any world records, but because of the density of the solar field. The closer we put all the  heliostats together the taller the tower needs to be, so there is not interference between rows and rows of mirrors. The State of Israel wanted us to get a maximum utilization of land in terms of electricity per unit of land and that's the reason that tower has grown that height.\"14. Wide pan of mirror fields as seen from top of tower, from 185 meters15. Mid pan from construction workers on the top of the tower16. Low angle of tower 17. Mid tilt up of boiler 18. Wide of construction 19. Wide pan from Gartner on top of tower to mirrors 20. Zoom out of vehicles driving at the foot of the tower 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Eran Gartner, CEO, Megalim Power Ltd:\"The challenge for clean tech is competitiveness, and so I believe that under a Trump administration, whether it's in the United States, or around the world, the incentive remains to provide competitive clean tech technologies whether its solar, whether its wind, whether its hydro or others and to the extent that they can prove their benefit I believe that they have every expectations to continue to make investments. We also have to consider that the Trump administration has said that they'll be making significant infrastructure investment and what else is this if not infrastructure.\"22. Close shot down the inside of the tower with lift descending 23. Pan right of mirror fields as shot from towerTel Aviv, Israel – 21 December 201624. SOUNDBITE (English) Leehee Goldenberg, director of the department of economy and environment at Israel Union  Environmental Defense: \"We're still really lagging behind on taking advantage of Israel's sunshine. Israel has a potential to be a sunshine superpower, as well as because of its abundant of sun and the technological advances seen here in Israel. However comparing to countries such as Germany who's renewable resources , renewable energies,  35% of its entire energy mix , here in Israel we're still at 2.5% of renewable energies. So while we have seen significant steps in recent times regarding the bureaucracy about solar energy Israel's government hasn't really been pushing enough to reach its small goals regarding solar energy, and we would like to see a larger goals regarding solar energy and renewables in general, and a bigger push, in general from the Israeli government .\"Ashalim, Negev Desert, Israel - 22 December 201625. Mid zoom out from the solar tower site LEADIN:In sunny Israel, solar energy supplies just a small percentage of the nation's power needs, leaving it trailing far behind countries with cloudier and colder climates. Now it is trying to turn that around with a large-scale solar project that could mark a giant leap for the country's fledgling solar industry. STORYLINE: Traditionally run on a fossil fuel-based economy, Israel has struggled to translate its sunny rays into cleaner power. But with the goal of generating 10 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 and the addition of the solar mega-project, a future powered by renewable energy may lie ahead. The project, deep in the Negev desert, is made up of three plots, with a fourth planned for the future, each with a different solar technology. Together, the fields will be Israel's largest renewable energy project when completed by 2018. They are set to generate some 310 megawatts of power, enough for about 130,000 households, or roughly 5 percent of Israel's population, according to Israel's Electricity Authority. \"It's the most significant single building block in Israel's commitment to CO2 reduction and renewable energy,\" says Eran Gartner, chief executive of Megalim Solar Power Ltd., which is building one part of the project. The centerpiece of his project is a solar tower, which will be the world's largest once it is complete at 250 meters (820 feet) tall and will serve as a symbol of Israel's lofty renewable energy goals. Encircling the tower are 50,000 mirrors, known as heliostats, rising from the dusty earth in a shimmering blanket of glass with a 1-square-kilometer (4 square miles) reflective surface stretched out over more than 3 square kilometers (1.2 square miles) of land. Gartner explains that the height of the tower is in direct proportion to the amount of land the state granted the project. To maximize the use of the land, the panels were squeezed together. The closer the panels, the taller the tower needs to be. Using solar-thermal technology, the panels beam sunlight onto a boiler on the top of the tower which heats water, creating steam that will then spin a turbine and generate electricity. There are a number of solar-thermal fields around the world, with the largest solar tower currently near Ivanpah, California, in the Mojave desert.That project, which is the largest solar-thermal field at 14 square kilometers (5.5 square miles), has about 170,000 heliostats with 140-meter-tall (460-foot) towers. Another solar-thermal plot at Ashalim will be able to store energy even when the sun goes down. A third plot will use photovoltaic solar technology to produce energy. Yaron Szilas, CEO of Shikun \u0026 Binui Renewable Energy, the lead developer of the second solar-thermal plot, says combining the three technologies in one project was a wise move by the government because each has its own advantage. He says that in terms of the amount of electricity that will be produced, the project measures up to other large-scale solar fields in California and Chile. Israel has developed some of the world's most advanced solar energy equipment and enjoys a nearly endless supply of sunshine, but when it comes to deploying large-scale solar technology at home, the country lags behind. Israeli solar companies, frustrated by government bureaucracy, have often taken their expertise abroad. Countries with cooler climates like Germany have outpaced Israel in renewable energy development. Germany for example gets nearly 30 percent of its energy from renewable sources. For Israel, that number currently stands at 2.5 percent. \"Israel has a potential to be a sunshine superpower,\" says Leehee Goldenberg, director of the department of economy and environment at Israel Union for Environmental Defense. She says there have been steps in the right direction, but \"Israel's government hasn't really been pushing to reach its small goals regarding solar energy.\" Gartner says that Israel has often been reluctant to hand out huge parcels of land, a necessity for producing solar power on a large scale. Larger projects also demand access to state-owned infrastructure like gas, water and electricity, and connecting to those utilities out in remote plants in the Negev desert often takes time. There have been moves away from polluting energy sources. The discovery of natural gas deposits off Israel's shores has shifted its course and Israel now gets 70 percent of its energy from the resource. But Szilas says that discovery, while welcome, has delayed the impetus for promoting renewable energy. Legislation passed over the last year has provided incentives and cut down some of the bureaucracy for Israelis wanting to install solar powers on their roofs. Still, the developers in the Ashalim project say they want Israel to step up its renewable energy goals. ====Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com. 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