OFF GRID AID - FINALIST
ISRAEL - PALESTINE

Two Israeli physicists are helping Palestinian villages in the West Bank generate their own cheap renewable energy.

"The need was obvious - every household you go into, every person you meet, the need cries out to you" Elad Orian, Comet-ME

In the politically volatile area of the occupied territories in the West bank are communities of Palestinian shanty towns - communities that live in darkness because for them an electricity grid is an impossible dream. But renewable technology such as solar and wind power could change that. Israel is one of the world leaders in solar power and two Israeli physicists, Elad Orian and Noam Dotan, are hoping to bring power to the desert by installing wind and solar technologies to help run lights and fridges for these impoverished people. Through their work developing sustainable power sources on the West Bank they are giving a light of hope, quite literally, to these off-the-grid neighbourhoods.