About PV Experts
 

PV Experts started its operation in June 2008, after more then 20 years of experience of its owners, working separately on many PV projects. 

Right from the beginning we were constantly employed by PV developers, in Israel as well as in other countries, as consultants on technical, economical and licensing issues.
Our consultancy covered a Spanish PV project, big Israeli PV companies, licensing for new developers in Israel, preparing an offer for a Greek company for a tender issued by a big Greek building company, preparing a business plan for an eight MW PV project in Thailand. Our consultancy in that case included also the preparation of the equipment list and quantities needed in order to receive price quotations from various equipment suppliers.
 

In another matter, we were asked by the Israel land authority to evaluate what plots of land in industrial zones in the south of the country should be marketed by them for PV installations.
Recentley we prepared for the government of Panama a study for the building of PV clinics in 110 remote Indian vilages in the country.
We have been nominated as consultants that will assist 5 Israeli banks in evaluating projects that will apply for loans for PV projects from that bank.
We think that our long experience in the PV market can be of great benefit to many developers in this field of clean energy.
You can contact us at any time if you have any inquiries.


Partners and Co-Founders:

Mr. Dan Shilo

BA and MA in Economics at the Tel Aviv University .

Served for 21 years at the Ministry of Energy In Israel.

As head of the Chief Scientist office in the Ministry, was in charge of evaluating and planning many Alternative energy projects In Israel. Amongst others, was in charge of planning and implementing the first Israeli PV Village by the name of KLIL, back in 1985.

Later on in 1987 – 1988, was in charge of establishing the first Solar test site at the Ben Gurion University in Sde-Boker, in the southern part of Israel. This test site checks both PV and solar thermal equipment and is still operating up to this time. 

For The last 8 years, works as a private consultant on alternative energy projects.

Since 2007, within the consultancy group ofPV Experts Israel, is involved together with Dr. Ibrahim Yehia and Dr.Douglas Ruby in evaluating many PV projects in Israel as well as in other countries.

Prepared a business plan for an eight MW PV project in Thailand.

Douglas Ruby, Ph.D.

Doug is a Si cell device physicist. 

He was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in Photovoltaics at Sandia National Laboratories for over 22 years.

He served as the Team Leader of PV Cell Development and performed research on new Si cell designs and processes.

He conducted joint experiments with most major US Si solar cell manufacturers. These resulted in numerous publications and several process improvements widely adopted by industry. 

He has 5 US patents for Si cell designs and processes. 

Dr. Ruby is now a consultant to the Photovoltaics Industry. He performs numerical modeling of solar cell device operation to predict cell behavior and suggests ways to improve performance. He also does modeling to predict module, array and system performance. 

Doug received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from MIT and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois. 

Yehia Ibrahim, Ph. D.

Yehia is a Silicon wafer device physicist. 

He was a Researcher in Siemens-Solar Labs in Munich and later a representative of Siemens-solar in Israel.

He worked in the 1000 PV-Grid connected houses project, the first PV-governmental project in Germany.

From 1995-1999 Yehia worked in cooperation with Siemens-Solar in the PV-Field in Israel and established the company Solnur-Systems for planning, Design and installation of PV-Systems. During those years, yehia served as a consultant for many governmental and private institutions, inside and outside the country.

From 2000-2003 he worked in Marvell Technology Groups as a Silicon Debug manager.

From 2004 until now he serves as the Chief scientist of the regional triangle R&D-Center and performs different research projects in the PV-Field. 

Dr. Yehia is now a consultant to the Photovoltaic Industry. He performs electrical and technical plans and also testing the performance ratio of the PV-systems in relation to the system design and grid fluctuation in order to achieve optimal outputs. 

Yehia received his Master of Science in Physics from Frankfurt University and Ph.D. in Material Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt.