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RENO, Nev., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) is pleased to announce that its 2010 annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 1:30 P.M. local time at the offices of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040422/LATH066LOGO) A Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, including details of the annual meeting, will be mailed to stockholders of...
RENO, Nev., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that its North Brawley power plant in California has been placed in service and is currently operating at a stable capacity of 17 MW. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040422/LATH066LOGO) As previously disclosed, while the Company believes that the North Brawley reservoir is sufficient to support the 50MW output, the re-injection of the geothermal fluid has been a challenge due to...
Contact Energy has welcomed the granting of resource consent for the company's 220MW Te Mihi geothermal power station at Taupo, New Zealand. David Baldwin, CEO of Contact Energy, said that Te Mihi was a nationally significant generation project that would provide the country with enough renewable, baseload energy to power more than 200,000 homes. Mr Baldwin said: "Good progress is being made with the development of three new geothermal power stations totaling approximately 500MW. In...
By WEIR, James IT HAS been great to have an emergency backup power plant in Hawke's Bay this winter. But it is a shame that it was put in the wrong place with the wrong fuel, after the 2003 power crisis. And the real answer to New Zealand's power shortage is not in diesel-fired stations or wind farms, but in the geothermal steam fields around Taupo -- seen as the "bee's knees" by the electricity industry. Contact Energy chief executive David Baldwin suggested this week that it was time...
By HARPER, Rebecca Jayme Fitzgerald writes about day-to-day life, her own experiences and those of her friends. The talented singer-songwriter from Tauhara College in Taupo is the only Waikato performer to make the national final of this year's Smokefreerockquest. Jayme, 15, is also the only solo act among the six finalists, who will play off at the Christchurch Town Hall on Friday September 5. The year 11 student, who lives and breathes music, got her first instrument young. "When I...
A proposed $500-million geothermal power station near Taupo could pump $90 million into the local economy, a special board considering the proposal has heard. The board of inquiry, appointed by the environment minister, is considering Contact Energy's resource- consent application to build the Te Mihi power station on the Wairakei- Tauhara steamfield, 10km northwest of Taupo. It is planned that the 220-MegaWatt station will supply electricity to 70,000 homes and reduce greenhouse gas...
By WATSON, Mike A PROPOSED $500 million geothermal power station near Taupo could pump $90 million into the local economy, a special board considering the proposal has been told. The board of inquiry, appointed by the environment minister, is considering Contact Energy's resource-consent application to build Te Mihi power station on the Wairakei-Tauhara steamfield, 10 kilometres northwest of Taupo. The application seeks resource consent to discharge steam into the air and geothermal...
Ormat Technologies has announced that two of its subsidiaries have entered into a $42 million supply and construction contract with Contact Energy for the Centennial binary plant, a new geothermal power plant that is to be constructed in the Tauhara geothermal field in New Zealand. The construction of the power plant is expected to be completed within 23 months. Contact Energy is reportedly New Zealand's largest geothermal power plant owner and operator, as well as the country's largest...
