Fossil energy companies did not get the token "not moving so quickly to clean energy"

However the message seems to be getting through. At the energy conference that took place Shove Ido Rosilio, chairman of the Ashdod Paz Refinery: "Today our feeling as those who deal with fossil fuels - that we will just fly away from our eyes. that they don't want us" * The Ministry of Energy prefers hydrogen to be produced in ZEN, which is supposed to be closed * Demand to close Katza

For the fossil energy companies that participated this week in the 18th International Energy and Business Conference held this week in the Maccabiah village in Ramat Gan, the token did not fall and they rely on urban legends: "It does not burn to switch to clean energy". However, the public message seems to be starting to seep through. Ido Rosilio, chairman of the Paz Ashdod Refinery: "Today our feeling as those who deal with fossil fuels - that we will just fly away from our eyes. that they don't want us."

Rosolio said these words following a heated confrontation that developed between Katsa Chairman Erez Kalfon and CEO Adam Teva and Dean Amit Bracha.

Bracha: "After the extermination of the coral reserve in Eilat and the Evrona disaster and a series of environmental disasters, we are promoting legislation in the Knesset to abolish the KTASA. This company does not produce energy security for the State of Israel but only environmental disasters and species extinction. A company like Ktsa should be abolished because in the 60s it received a license to work in the dark, with a confidentiality order on environmental information. In 2022 there is no place to work in the dark. The Ktsa company in its current form cannot continue to exist".

Chairman of Katsa, Erez Kalfon: "In the next two decades fossil fuel will be used by us in the transition to renewable energies, and I think it will be more than two decades. The deal with the United Arab Emirates allows Israel to be a bridge between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and gives energy security to the country without relying only on the ports. I'm not calling to shut anyone down. About 85% of the fuel enters Israel through KTA. Someone is confused - it has nothing to do with one transaction or another. The country must have a constant flow of fuel and distillates, otherwise we will cease to exist. The government is the shareholder and if it wants to close - we will accept any decision it makes."

Ido Rosiliou, chairman of the Paz Ashdod Refinery: "As one who works with Katza and receives services from it, are you talking about closing it? These are the people who provide the energy for the State of Israel. Today our feeling as those who deal with fossil fuels - that we will just fly away from our eyes. who don't want us To cut off a part of the supply chain like Ketsa is illogical and will harm Israel's energy security. Without energy, the supply of drinking water in Israel runs out in a very short time. ceased to exist. If only for this reason - there is vitality in the continuity of the supply chain".

In Sonol they recycle fake news about pollution from the electric cars

The electric company and Sonol prefer that we fuel with hydrogen, which can be produced cleanly but can also be produced from natural gas. Therefore, the fossil energy industry has a tendency to hold on to hydrogen in order to continue using gas, and that the gas takers will be able to continue in one way or another to pollute. They are supported by the Deputy Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Energy Gideon Friedman.

Amichai Baram, VP of Operations and Engineering at Sonol, said at the conference that although Sonol operates very strongly in the field of electric vehicles, the company believes that the classic and most likely solution is hydrogen.

However: "The production of electric vehicles and the production of batteries is no less polluting than gasoline and diesel fuel. Lithium is a limited resource in the world, so prices will go up. There are also no solutions for what to do with the batteries. The major car manufacturers: Mercedes, Volvo and Hyundai are investing billions in the direction of hydrogen, which is why we are working to bring such vehicles to Israel. We will not see a return in the coming years from the field, yet we put money, resources and technology because we believe this is the future. The question is when will we see hydrogen refueling and the answer is only when there will be a refueling station. The state must define a road map in this direction. In 2022 our first station will open and refuel. We are on the right path to the energy revolution in Israel."

Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Energy, Gideon Friedman, said: "We will support the introduction of hydrogen-based vehicles, buses, forklifts and trucks. Storage of hydrogen will lead the change. This is a long-term storage. There are great challenges in its transportation and various processes related to its assimilation instead of gas. At the Ministry of Energy, we support the establishment of a hydraulic refueling station and now support a mobile station. We also help Bezan to produce hydrogen."

By the way, according to a government decision, the refineries in Haifa are expected to close by 2030, is anyone preparing an ambush?

Electric and solar neighborhood

And more at the conference: Tzvia Baron, the director of innovation at the electricity company, said: "Democratization of the electricity market is a goal of 30 percent renewable energies by 2030. We will help this happen, in the last two years we have worked with 200 startups with different technologies, different pilots and as soon as they succeed we will test them before Assimilation. In the coming year we will build three fields for testing innovations with the goal of reaching the goal of 30 percent renewables. A strategic project will be the establishment of a living laboratory in the south of Israel, where we will take an entire neighborhood and accelerate it, five to seven years ahead, with the help of partners, and see what a smart electric neighborhood in the State of Israel is going to look like: solar roofs, storage, electric vehicles, smart homes and more."

More of the topic in Hayadan:

• Evrona reserve: a year and a half after the oil spill
• Weeping Willow - A tourist guide in Eilat is pained by the oil spill, the death of animals, the drying of plants and the poisoning of water sources
• A marine monitoring system will help identify and stop the spread of oil pollution in the sea and prevent ecological disasters
• One of the worst ecological disasters in Israel - tar is released from the sea on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea