Ormat Technologies Offered Conditional Commitment for DOE Loan Guarantee

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Ormat Technologies Offered Conditional Commitment for DOE Loan Guarantee -- RENO, Nev., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

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RENO, Nev., June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: [ ORA ]) today announced its subsidiary, Ormat Nevada Inc. ("Ormat Nevada") received an offer of a conditional commitment from the DOE that would provide a partial guarantee for up to a $350 million loan to support a geothermal power project expected to generate up to 121 MW of power from three Nevada based facilities built in two phases.

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The three facilities -- McGinness Hills, Jersey Valley and Tuscarora -- will provide clean and baseload power through 20-year power purchase agreements with Nevada Power Company, a subsidiary of NV Energy.

Dita Bronicki, CEO of Ormat Technologies said, "The DOE 1705 program provides us with financing terms that enables us to finance a portfolio of facilities that are being developed in two phases. This innovative approach to project finance was made possible thanks to the DOE loan guarantee. We are thankful to the DOE's Loan Programs Office and the rest of the team that moved the project thus far, and will continue working towards the closing of this transaction."

The facilities utilize Ormat's proprietary OEC technology, which are commercially proven and installed in approximately 1,370 MW of geothermal power plants and other electricity generating systems around the world. The OEC employs a binary organic Rankine cycle, with hot water drawn from wells deep below the Earth's surface.  The water's thermal energy is used to heat a secondary fluid that is vaporized and then forced through a turbine to generate electricity.  

Lender-applicant, John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA) submitted the application under the Financial Institution Partnership Program (FIPP).  

About Ormat Technologies

Ormat Technologies, Inc. is the only vertically integrated company primarily engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants around the world. Additionally, the Company designs, manufactures and sells geothermal and recovered energy power units and other power-generating equipment, and provides related services. The Company has more than four decades of experience in the development of environmentally-sound power, primarily in geothermal and recovered-energy generation. Ormat products and systems are covered by 80 U.S. patents. Ormat has engineered and built power plants, that it currently owns or has supplied to utilities and developers worldwide, totaling approximately 1370 MW of gross capacity. Ormat's current generating portfolio includes the following geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants: in the United States - Brady, Brawley, Heber, Jersey Valley, Mammoth, Ormesa, Puna, Steamboat, OREG 1, OREG 2, OREG 3 and OREG 4; in Guatemala - Zunil and Amatitlan; in Kenya– Olkaria III; and, in Nicaragua - Momotombo.

Ormat's Safe Harbor Statement

Information provided in this press release may contain statements relating to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally relate to Ormat's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations and are based upon its management's current estimates and projections of future results or trends. Actual future results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, see "Risk Factors" as described in Ormat Technologies, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2011.

These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

SOURCE Ormat Technologies, Inc.

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