ORA Ormat Technologies Inc

RENO, Nev., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) is pleased to announce that its 2012 annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 1:30 P.M. local time at the offices of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York.

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A Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, including details of the annual meeting, will be mailed to stockholders of record as of March 19, 2012. Only stockholders of record at the close of business on that date will be entitled to vote at the meeting.

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 1410 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.

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