Introduction – Community Outreach
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Using Technology to Encourage Employee Donations
We initiated a program to enable Israeli employees to make donations through the JGive donation platform. Employees can donate to hundreds of confirmed non-profits and receive tax refunds directly to their pay slip. This makes it easier to donate when one is inclined and ensures that contributors will receive the tax credits to which they are entitled.
Go Baby Go
We support the “Go Baby Go” initiative which promotes equal opportunities for kids with physical disabilities and acts to improve their quality of life. Our initiative is centered on customizing motorized toy cars. Each car is tailored to the specific needs of a disabled child and is designed with the help of physiotherapists. The cars use propulsion technology and a seating system that allows each child to travel independently and safely. During 2024, our employees participated in four workshops, using their professional skills to build the motorized cars. During each such event, the employees also had the opportunity to meet the kids for shared activities.
Atidim
Enhancing Populations of Different Perspectives and Backgrounds
We support Atidim’s Step UP Program which identifies talented young women from Israel’s underserved periphery and provides support, enrichment and empowerment to create equal educational opportunities and social mobility. In 2024, SolarEdge donated three full scholarships to allow three program participants from underserved backgrounds to major in engineering in order to pursue careers in high-tech. These scholarships also include private lessons to ensure that these individuals have the opportunity to excel in their careers.
Within this framework, we also organized two Meet-Ups throughout the year on tech trends in the energy sector and students from the program were invited to take part. These Meet-Ups were led by SolarEdge women managers.
Shavot
Collaborating with Weizmann Institute to promote renewable energy education
Helping create the next generation of Solar energy professionals in Israel
Ofanim
The Guy Sella Memorial Project
Tech Education / Innovation
In recent years, female SolarEdge employees from various departments in SolarEdge took part in the Shavot program, a nationwide initiative that encourages girls to develop positive self-esteem. Through meaningful experiences like the ones fostered by our female employees, young girls are able to discover new strengths and aspire to reach higher goals.
In early 2024, twenty of our female employees met with twenty-two groups of girls from the city of Hadera, Israel. As part of the program, our employees shared their career path and delivered an EDGEUcate lesson. In addition, the girls visited our HQ offices on International Women’s Day. They experienced a “day-in-the-life” of their SolarEdge female program participants and were exposed to the day-to-day activities of various departments at SolarEdge.
In 2024, SolarEdge started a new collaboration with the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute, to develop innovative educational content on sustainability and renewable energies. Several SolarEdge employees contributed their professional knowledge and helped develop an experiential and practical educational workshop on renewable energy, designed for high school students. This new workshop has been held on four occasions so far, with the participation of several SolarEdge engineers and training experts, sharing their knowledge with dozens of high school students from diverse backgrounds in northern Israel. We aim to continue this collaboration in the coming years.
During 2024, SolarEdge engaged in a new initiative, in collaboration with ‘Yated’ - the national program for at-risk youth in Israel, the Rashi Foundation, and Volta Solar.
Appropriate candidates from the ‘Yated’ program were offered a comprehensive practical course on Solar PV system installation. This training includes theoretical foundations, product reviews, leading trends in the solar market, practical on-the-job training, and the acquisition of basic skills for entering the job market. Course graduates were also assisted in job placement, helping them find their first role in the growing solar industry in Israel.
This collaborative initiative aims to increase the availability of qualified personnel needed to meet the growing demand for solar installers in Israel, while also providing at-risk youth with a professional opportunity to jump-start their career.
We are a member of Friends of Ofanim, an award-winning organization that drives STEM education for elementary school children in Israel’s underserved regions in the north and south. We have delivered our EDGEUcate workshops and conducted tours of Sella 1 for underprivileged youth in the periphery, creating educational opportunities for Israel’s most disadvantaged children.
This project was initiated in 2020 in memory of Guy Sella, SolarEdge’s Co-Founder, former Chairman and CEO who passed away in August 2019. As part of the project, the Company has pledged to invest $1,000,000 over ten years in a joint SolarEdge-Technion educational and technological initiative (with 2024 representing the fifth project year). The Technion, Israel’s leading technical research university, is committed to matching these funds. The Guy Sella Memorial Project combines teaching, research, and outreach activities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, including teaching labs and research fellowships.
As part of the project, annual lectures are held regarding the SolarEdge story and technology were held in the Technion, as part of energy related courses and to mentors in a tech-hub program.
During the 2024 academic year, over 20 students conducted projects in the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Laboratory (PEARL), donated by SolarEdge and opened in 2022. PEARL is a first-of-its-kind lab integrating renewable energy and power electronics as part of the studies of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The goals of the lab are to acquaint graduate students with the practicalities of climate tech and to expose them to the increasing efficiencies of photovoltaics, e-mobility and other renewable technologies.
EDGEUcate
Our flagship long-term educational program, EDGEUcate, aims to raise awareness and educate children from a young age on sustainability practices and teaching about solar energy. We developed age-appropriate learning kits in collaboration with educational consultants and content writers for use in the classroom by our employees. Educational kits were designed for students from kindergarten through 12thgrade, based on materials from our “Edge Academy”.
The program was launched in Israel during 2022 and in additional global regions where we operate during 2023 and 2024. By March 2025, approximately 200 SolarEdge employees have taught EDGEUcate classes in 8 countries to over 10,000 pupils. Among else, the program has been taught to children with disabilities and to children from underserved communities.
VeNatata
Community Installation Project
Green Energy / Environment
We support one of Venatata’s “100,000 Trees” projects; their aim is to plant 100,000 trees throughout Israel in the next 5 years, with an emphasis on planting in urban centers and creating a “green lung”. SolarEdge participated in this project by creating a tree nursery at an urban agriculture youth village in Herzliya. Dozens of employees volunteered their time and were directly involved in developing this tree nursery during 2023. In 2024, once the trees were strong enough, our employees have volunteered to help the effort of moving the trees for planting at rehabilitation institutions around Israel.
At early 2024, SolarEdge donated an entire solar energy management system to a No2Violence women’s shelter located in the center of Israel. No2Violence is an NGO supporting women and children jeopardized by domestic violence, enabling them to break away and start a new life. They provide shelter, professional help, vocational training, and legal aid. They also raise awareness of the scourge of domestic violence.
The 40kW SolarEdge PV system that we donated includes the Power Optimizers, inverters and other hardware that we manufacture, as well as providing the solar panels, racking and other ancillary products required for the installed system. A SolarEdge expert installation team carried out and oversaw the entire installation.
As part of our partnership with No2Violence, we are also establishing a community garden at the shelter. SolarEdge professionals are working with the organization to formulate the organization’s marketing and branding strategy, as well.
This installation project followed our previous community installation project from early 2023, where the company donated and installed a PV system at the Manof youth village for youth at risk in North Israel.
equivalent to 0.58% of net profits[1]
$199,000
In 2024, SolarEdge donated
This plan is composed of the following three pillars:
Advancing education on renewable energy, promoting sustainability and climate action
Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and encouraging youth innovation
Enhancing populations of different perspectives and backgrounds
We continue to grow our efforts and measure the impact on the communities in which we live and work. This year, we expanded upon the previous year’s activities, by continuing to grow a broad range of initiatives in line with the above-mentioned three-pillar employee engagement plan. Two of our main initiatives were large-scale projects initiated within the Company itself (our Community Installation project and our expanded EDGEUcate project – both of which are detailed below). Other initiatives include partnering with NGOs specializing in their respective areas of expertise.
The plan also defines the criteria for CSR initiatives in the communities where our operations are located, emphasizing employee engagement and potential impact. As part of the plan, our employees are offered various opportunities for volunteering activities organized by the company, and we allow employees to volunteer one day per year during paid working hours.
To this end, we have established our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee. This committee is comprised of employees from a range of functions within the company whose purpose is to progress community engagement programs while sharing different internal views. In addition, our Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is responsible for the oversight and effective promotion of our community engagement strategy and programs.
Our strategy and programs are based on an extensive community engagement multi-year plan.
As a global leader in smart energy, impact is at the core of everything we do. We are continuously looking for opportunities to positively impact the communities in which we live and work.
Enhancing Populations of Different Perspectives and Backgrounds
Tech Education / Innovation
Green Energy / Environment
EDGEUcate
Sustainability Report 2024 /
Community
Outreach
Ethical conduct: Our Employee Code of Conduct sets out specific guidance for SolarEdge employees to conduct business in accordance with the highest ethical standards and establishes an expectation that all employees will act in accordance with personal and professional integrity. The code has recently undergone an update, to include expanded guidance relating to whistleblowing practices, political and trade union involvement and human rights. The Employee Code of Conduct has been translated into the local languages commonly used in most of the regions where our employees reside. A copy of the Employee Code of Conduct is included in each new employee’s contract, appearing in a language the employee can understand (same as with our employment contracts). All new employees receive training regarding the code requirements and confirm in writing their intent to comply with these requirements and their willingness to report suspected violations.
In 2023, the Company has also revised its Insider Trading Policy, among other things to prohibit all employees and non-employee directors from engaging in any speculative transactions, hedging and pledging transactions and trading on margin.
We conduct an annual on-line employee code of conduct training program. In the cases of some production employees who do not have computer access, the training is conducted in on-site group sessions. The training includes emphasis on realistic work-place scenarios regarding issues such as anti-harassment and discrimination, anti-corruption, conflict of interest, political involvement, and more. The training also re-informs the employees regarding the different channels available for reporting code violations. The new code of conduct training is mandatory for all employees world-wide, including part-time employees, and including contractor employees who work for the Company as external consultants.
Over 3,100 employees, which comprise approximately 80%[1]of the end-of-year workforce, have successfully completed the Employee Code of Conduct training in 2024.
In recent years, and in addition to the global on-line training, the Company held specific code-of-conduct training sessions for dozens of procurement-related personnel, who are involved in sensitive procurement decisions. The training focused on potential conflict of interest cases relevant to procurement decisions, such as avoiding inappropriate gifts from established or potential vendors, or issues related to carrying out business with organizations that employ /are owned by family members or personal friends.
In 2024, we investigated one compliance related allegation, regarding business integrity. As a result of our investigations, one employee was subject to disciplinary action.
In 2023, six reports were investigated (three reports regarding human resources, diversity and workplace respect, and three reports regarding business integrity). Two employees were subject to disciplinary action.
In 2022, ten reports were investigated (6 reports regarding human resources, diversity and workplace respect; 3 reports regarding business integrity; 1 report on EHS issues). Seven employees were subject to disciplinary action
Whistleblowing: Employees are encouraged to report suspected violations of the Employee Code of Conduct through different means, including a confidential hotline. All reports are promptly investigated, and action is taken as required.
Compliance: Compliance is fundamental to our business as it protects us from risk, fosters trust with our stakeholders and provides a solid basis for sustainable growth and a positive contribution to society. We aim to conduct business in line with all applicable laws and regulations governing our operations in all countries.
In 2024, SolarEdge was not subject to any fines for non-compliance with any kind of the laws and regulations that apply in all the regions where we operate. For more information, see our Approach to Compliance.
Sustainability Report 2024 /
Ethics
& Compliance
Join the SolarEdge Conversation
Contact our sustainability / ESG team
Contact us
How can we help you?
[1]
Donation per profit ratio was calculated using the 2024 total donations, divided by the 2023 total net profits. We consider this ratio to be representative, since our donation budget is planned at the beginning of each year as a percentage of last year’s profits.
Join the SolarEdge Conversation
Contact our sustainability / ESG team
Contact us
How can we help you?
Using Technology to Encourage Employee Donations
We initiated a program to enable Israeli employees to make donations through the JGive donation platform. Employees can donate to hundreds of confirmed non-profits and receive tax refunds directly to their pay slip. This makes it easier to donate when one is inclined and ensures that contributors will receive the tax credits to which they are entitled.
Go Baby Go
We support the “Go Baby Go” initiative which promotes equal opportunities for kids with physical disabilities and acts to improve their quality of life. Our initiative is centered on customizing motorized toy cars. Each car is tailored to the specific needs of a disabled child and is designed with the help of physiotherapists. The cars use propulsion technology and a seating system that allows each child to travel independently and safely. During 2023, our employees participated in four workshops, using their professional skills to build the motorized cars. During each such event, the employees also had the opportunity to meet the kids for shared activities.
Atidim
Enhancing Populations of Different Perspectives and Backgrounds
We support Atidim’s Step UP Program which identifies talented young women from Israel’s underserved periphery and provides support, enrichment and empowerment to create equal educational opportunities and social mobility. In 2024, SolarEdge donated three full scholarships to allow three program participants from underserved backgrounds to major in engineering in order to pursue careers in high-tech. These scholarships also include private lessons to ensure that these individuals have the opportunity to excel in their careers.
Within this framework, we also organized two Meet-Ups throughout the year on tech trends in the energy sector and students from the program were invited to take part. These Meet-Ups were led by SolarEdge women managers.
Shavot
Collaborating with Weizmann Institute to promote renewable energy education
Helping create the next generation of Solar energy professionals in Israel
Ofanim
The Guy Sella Memorial Project
Tech Education / Innovation
In recent years, female SolarEdge employees from various departments in SolarEdge took part in the Shavot program, a nationwide initiative that encourages girls to develop positive self-esteem. Through meaningful experiences like the ones fostered by our female employees, young girls are able to discover new strengths and aspire to reach higher goals.
In early 2024, twenty of our female employees met with twenty-two groups of girls from the city of Hadera, Israel. As part of the program, our employees shared their career path and delivered an EDGEUcate lesson. In addition, the girls visited our HQ offices on International Women’s Day. They experienced a “day-in-the-life” of their SolarEdge female program participants and were exposed to the day-to-day activities of various departments at SolarEdge.
In 2024, SolarEdge started a new collaboration with the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute, to develop innovative educational content on sustainability and renewable energies. Several SolarEdge employees contributed their professional knowledge and helped develop an experiential and practical educational workshop on renewable energy, designed for high school students. This new workshop has been held on four occasions so far, with the participation of several SolarEdge engineers and training experts, sharing their knowledge with dozens of high school students from diverse backgrounds in northern Israel. We aim to continue this collaboration in the coming years.
During 2024, SolarEdge engaged in a new initiative, in collaboration with ‘Yated’ - the national program for at-risk youth in Israel, the Rashi Foundation, and Volta Solar.
Appropriate candidates from the ‘Yated’ program were offered a comprehensive practical course on Solar PV system installation. This training includes theoretical foundations, product reviews, leading trends in the solar market, practical on-the-job training, and the acquisition of basic skills for entering the job market. Course graduates were also assisted in job placement, helping them find their first role in the growing solar industry in Israel.
This collaborative initiative aims to increase the availability of qualified personnel needed to meet the growing demand for solar installers in Israel, while also providing at-risk youth with a professional opportunity to jump-start their career.
We are a member of Friends of Ofanim, an award-winning organization that drives STEM education for elementary school children in Israel’s underserved regions in the north and south. We have delivered our EDGEUcate workshops and conducted tours of Sella 1 for underprivileged youth in the periphery, creating educational opportunities for Israel’s most disadvantaged children.
This project was initiated in 2020 in memory of Guy Sella, SolarEdge’s Co-Founder, former Chairman and CEO who passed away in August 2019. As part of the project, the Company has pledged to invest $1,000,000 over ten years in a joint SolarEdge-Technion educational and technological initiative (with 2024 representing the fifth project year). The Technion, Israel’s leading technical research university, is committed to matching these funds. The Guy Sella Memorial Project combines teaching, research, and outreach activities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, including teaching labs and research fellowships.
As part of the project, annual lectures are held regarding the SolarEdge story and technology were held in the Technion, as part of energy related courses and to mentors in a tech-hub program.
During the 2024 academic year, over 20 students conducted projects in the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Laboratory (PEARL), donated by SolarEdge and opened in 2022. PEARL is a first-of-its-kind lab integrating renewable energy and power electronics as part of the studies of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The goals of the lab are to acquaint graduate students with the practicalities of climate tech and to expose them to the increasing efficiencies of photovoltaics, e-mobility and other renewable technologies.
VeNatata
Community Installation Project
Green Energy / Environment
We support one of Venatata’s “100,000 Trees” projects; their aim is to plant 100,000 trees throughout Israel in the next 5 years, with an emphasis on planting in urban centers and creating a “green lung”. SolarEdge participated in this project by creating a tree nursery at an urban agriculture youth village in Herzliya. Dozens of employees volunteered their time and were directly involved in developing this tree nursery during 2023. In 2024, once the trees were strong enough, our employees have volunteered to help the effort of moving the trees for planting at rehabilitation institutions around Israel.
At early 2024, SolarEdge donated an entire solar energy management system to a No2Violence women’s shelter located in the center of Israel. No2Violence is an NGO supporting women and children jeopardized by domestic violence, enabling them to break away and start a new life. They provide shelter, professional help, vocational training, and legal aid. They also raise awareness of the scourge of domestic violence.
The 40kW SolarEdge PV system that we donated includes the Power Optimizers, inverters and other hardware that we manufacture, as well as providing the solar panels, racking and other ancillary products required for the installed system. A SolarEdge expert installation team carried out and oversaw the entire installation.
As part of our partnership with No2Violence, we are also establishing a community garden at the shelter. SolarEdge professionals are working with the organization to formulate the organization’s marketing and branding strategy, as well.
This installation project followed our previous community installation project from early 2023, where the company donated and installed a PV system at the Manof youth village for youth at risk in North Israel.
EDGEUcate
Our flagship long-term educational program, EDGEUcate, aims to raise awareness and educate children from a young age on sustainability practices and teaching about solar energy. We developed age-appropriate learning kits in collaboration with educational consultants and content writers for use in the classroom by our employees. Educational kits were designed for students from kindergarten through 12thgrade, based on materials from our “Edge Academy”.
The program was launched in Israel during 2022 and in additional global regions where we operate during 2023 and 2024. By March 2025, approximately 200 SolarEdge employees have taught EDGEUcate classes in 8 countries to over 10,000 pupils. Among else, the program has been taught to children with disabilities and to children from underserved communities.
equivalent to 0.58% of net profits[1]
$199,000
In 2024, SolarEdge donated
This plan is composed of the following three pillars:
Advancing education on renewable energy, promoting sustainability and climate action
Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and encouraging youth innovation
Enhancing populations of different perspectives and backgrounds
We continue to grow our efforts and measure the impact on the communities in which we live and work. This year, we expanded upon the previous year’s activities, by continuing to grow a broad range of initiatives in line with the above-mentioned three-pillar employee engagement plan. Two of our main initiatives were large-scale projects initiated within the Company itself (our Community Installation project and our expanded EDGEUcate project – both of which are detailed below). Other initiatives include partnering with NGOs specializing in their respective areas of expertise.
The plan also defines the criteria for CSR initiatives in the communities where our operations are located, emphasizing employee engagement and potential impact. As part of the plan, our employees are offered various opportunities for volunteering activities organized by the company, and we allow employees to volunteer one day per year during paid working hours.
To this end, we have established our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee. This committee is comprised of employees from a range of functions within the company whose purpose is to progress community engagement programs while sharing different internal views. In addition, our Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is responsible for the oversight and effective promotion of our community engagement strategy and programs.
Our strategy and programs are based on an extensive community engagement multi-year plan.
Introduction – Community Outreach
As a global leader in smart energy, impact is at the core of everything we do. We are continuously looking for opportunities to positively impact the communities in which we live and work.
Community
Outreach
Sustainability Report 2024 /
Join the SolarEdge Conversation
Contact our sustainability / ESG team
Contact us
How can we help you?
Ethical conduct: Our Employee Code of Conduct sets out specific guidance for SolarEdge employees to conduct business in accordance with the highest ethical standards and establishes an expectation that all employees will act in accordance with personal and professional integrity. The code has recently undergone an update, to include expanded guidance relating to whistleblowing practices, political and trade union involvement and human rights. The Employee Code of Conduct has been translated into the local languages commonly used in most of the regions where our employees reside. A copy of the Employee Code of Conduct is included in each new employee’s contract, appearing in a language the employee can understand (same as with our employment contracts). All new employees receive training regarding the code requirements and confirm in writing their intent to comply with these requirements and their willingness to report suspected violations.
In 2023, the Company has also revised its Insider Trading Policy, among other things to prohibit all employees and non-employee directors from engaging in any speculative transactions, hedging and pledging transactions and trading on margin.
We conduct an annual on-line employee code of conduct training program. In the cases of some production employees who do not have computer access, the training is conducted in on-site group sessions. The training includes emphasis on realistic work-place scenarios regarding issues such as anti-harassment and discrimination, anti-corruption, conflict of interest, political involvement, and more. The training also re-informs the employees regarding the different channels available for reporting code violations. The new code of conduct training is mandatory for all employees world-wide, including part-time employees, and including contractor employees who work for the Company as external consultants.
Over 3,100 employees, which comprise approximately 80%[1]of the end-of-year workforce, have successfully completed the Employee Code of Conduct training in 2024.
In recent years, and in addition to the global on-line training, the Company held specific code-of-conduct training sessions for dozens of procurement-related personnel, who are involved in sensitive procurement decisions. The training focused on potential conflict of interest cases relevant to procurement decisions, such as avoiding inappropriate gifts from established or potential vendors, or issues related to carrying out business with organizations that employ /are owned by family members or personal friends.
[1]
While we generally aim for a completion rate of over 90% for our annual ethics training, this was not achieved this year. The main reason was the inclusion of some of the 2024 end-of-year employees in the early 2025 restructuring of our workforce. Among the employees still designated for the annual training, we have indeed achieved a completion rate of over 90%.
In 2024, we investigated one compliance related allegation, regarding business integrity. As a result of our investigations, one employee was subject to disciplinary action.
In 2023, six reports were investigated (three reports regarding human resources, diversity and workplace respect, and three reports regarding business integrity). Two employees were subject to disciplinary action.
In 2022, ten reports were investigated (6 reports regarding human resources, diversity and workplace respect; 3 reports regarding business integrity; 1 report on EHS issues). Seven employees were subject to disciplinary action
Whistleblowing: Employees are encouraged to report suspected violations of the Employee Code of Conduct through different means, including a confidential hotline. All reports are promptly investigated, and action is taken as required.
Compliance: Compliance is fundamental to our business as it protects us from risk, fosters trust with our stakeholders and provides a solid basis for sustainable growth and a positive contribution to society. We aim to conduct business in line with all applicable laws and regulations governing our operations in all countries.
In 2024, SolarEdge was not subject to any fines for non-compliance with any kind of the laws and regulations that apply in all the regions where we operate. For more information, see our Approach to Compliance.
Ethics
& Compliance
Sustainability Report 2024 /