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Activities in the Middle East

These are the events, partnerships, and activities that EERE has been recently involved with in the Middle East. Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

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Israel

From May 19th to the 24th, 2008, Assistant Secretary Andrew Karsner visited Israel to explore alternative and renewable energy research and production. He and his team met with both academic and private sector researchers, as well as companies already selling renewable energy generating equipment and venture capital firms investing in new technologies. Karsner signed with the Director General of the Ministry of National Infrastructure an Implementation Agreement that advances a new U.S.-Israeli joint Energy Research Cooperation program. See the Implementation Agreement (PDF 471 KB).

This visit was an important step in execution of the Memorandum of Understanding signed on March 6, 2008, between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructure (MONI). Assistant Secretary Karsner's visit opened many new avenues for cooperation on biofuels, fuel cells, solar energy, and energy storage technologies, and many Israeli researchers expressed interest in visiting the DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other DOE lab facilities. See the full text of the MOU (PDF 22 KB).