Annual Reports
2020 Annual Report
This report contains a summary of Comet-ME’s activities through March 2021, constituting one of our largest and most ambitious project cycles to date. This was a technically, operationally, and politically challenging year, beginning with the looming threat of annexation and conducted under the constraints of the COVID-19 crisis and under the watchful eye of settlements, outposts, and the Israeli Civil Administration. We expanded our team to 23 to achieve our ambitious installation goals, bringing our renewable energy install base to 95 communities and 1,400 households, and our water install base to 350 households in 44 different communities.
2019 Annual Report
This Annual Report takes us through June 2020, covering the completion of our installation project cycle and including a special 10 year anniversary section! The report also relates to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the West Bank in the second quarter of 2020. Over the past year, in which we marked ten years since Comet-ME’s founding, our team completed another ambitious round of off-grid energy and water installations, bringing renewable energy services to 282 households and 1,903 individuals in 11 Palestinian-Bedouin communities in Area C of the occupied Palestinian territories. We installed 5 micro-grids, 155 family-based solar systems, and 40 household water pumping, distribution, and filtration systems.
2018 Annual Report
Moving slowly but steadily toward our goal
of providing universal energy access to the
Palestinian communities in Area C of the
occupied Palestinian territories, in 2018 Comet-ME installed renewable energy systems for
210 families in 14 different communities and
household water systems for 40 households
throughout our install base in the south. We
have expanded and honed our maintenance and
monitoring programs to meet the growing needs
of nearly 6,000 beneficiaries, while continuing
to provide legal protection for the energy
systems that are under threat of demolition. In
our research and development program, we have
nearly completed technological development
of a groundbreaking solar water pump targeting
smallholder farmers in the Global South and
are preparing to test it in its target markets and
geographical regions.
2017 Annual Report
In 2017 the Comet-ME team completed its largest installation project to date, expanding geographically from the south Hebron hills to cover much of Area C of the southern West Bank and as far as the Bethlehem and Ramallah areas. We installed renewable energy systems in 20 communities, providing a total of 348 solar panels, 57 water systems, and 1,670 meters of water pipeline to unserved communities. We provided 111 families and 850 individuals with electricity, 56 families and 350 individuals with clean water services, and we connected 3 schools, 2 clinics, 1 mosque, 1 kindergarten, and 5 small businesses.
2016 Annual Report
In 2016 the Comet-ME team completed its largest installation project to date, expanding geographically from the south Hebron hills to cover much of Area C of the southern West Bank and as far as the Bethlehem and Ramallah areas. We installed renewable energy systems in 20 communities, providing a total of 348 solar panels, 57 water systems, and 1,670 meters of water pipeline to unserved communities. We provided 111 families and 850 individuals with electricity, 56 families and 350 individuals with clean water services, and we connected 3 schools, 2 clinics, 1 mosque, 1 kindergarten, and 5 small businesses.
2015 Annual Report
Read about our largest energy and water installations to date, about the implementation of our water-quality monitoring scheme, developments in off-grid solar pumping, a stop-motion animation workshop, and more.