Israel has not been on the global investors favorites list despite having some of the most innovative renewable energy technologies such as a geothermal station in Nevada,solar panels in the Mohave desert .Experts cite poor policy and infrastructure as a major eyesore for international and local investors.Now change may be just around the corner with the coming of Isaac Berzin, the founder of GreenFuel Technologies.Berzin,senior fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya,plans to build a new Institute for Alternative Energy Policy in Israel under the IDC. This new institute will aim to develop strategic global energy policies in collaboration with the Washington based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS).
Israel decades of research in water technologies, grey-water irrigation,growing crops in brackish water has found favor with Berzin,who is targeting a algae-biofuel based energy alterative in the coming five years .
