"Kol Dodi" - Solar water heaters for low-economy public housing
Israel’s fame for solar water-heating capacity is world-known and well deserved. Nevertheless, many apartment buildings and flats - inhabited before the law requiring solar water heaters was issued – still heat water with polluting coal-based electricity or kerosene burnt in central boilers during both summer and winter. These homes are typically populated by poorer families that choose to avoid the solar system’s initial cost and opt to pay the monthly communal kerosene or electric bill.
Soaring oil & electricity prices affect lower socio-economical groups struggling to get by. Burning kerosene for water heating is an almost phased out polluting practice – and the associated environmental futility is especially lucid in face of the solar technology’s availability and proven performance.
Dror 19 St, Jaffa, Old kerosene boiler
Kol Dodi (Double Hebrew meaning – The voice of my God/lover as depicted in Song of Songs and "all the hot water tanks") is a GEI project intended to break the financial barrier preventing home owners from using solar power to heat water. The project assists private flats and buildings to replace communal boilers and electric water heaters through securing a financing deal with a local solar heaters producer, and by reducing the down-payment for the poorer families with carbon-subsidy.
Dror 19 St, Jaffa, New solar water heaters
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Each central-system replacement prevents the burning of 18,000 liters of kerosene/building/year, and each private solar water heater saves 1100 kWh/year. Solar water heaters typically operate for at least 10 years.
Project Carbon Credit Pricing :
12$/ton – communal systems
15$/ton private systems