01.09.2011                      02.Elul, 5771                      Slichot Adot Misrach

Umwelt:

Jerusalem vocational yeshiva launches solar rooftop

School for local and international students with socioeconomic challenges prides itself on being at the forefront of technology.

As 800 boys from all over the world rung in the new school year on Wednesday at Boys Town Jerusalem in Bayit Vagan, with them was a brand-new addition to a school that has been around since Israel’s independence – a rooftop filled with solar panels, absorbing light for electricity and contributing to the country’s grid since July.
The rooftop solar field, which was installed at the end of June after three years of bureaucratic battles, generates about 40 kilowatts per hour, which is sold directly to the Israel Electric Corporation for a feed-in tariff, or a reduction on the school’s monthly electric bill, according to school electrician David Darshan….