Ormat Technologies, Inc. to Participate in the Thomas Weisel Partners Alternative Energy & Natural Resources Conference

RENO, Nev., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that Dita Bronicki, chief executive officer, will present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Alternative Energy & Natural Resources Conference.

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Ms. Bronicki will provide an overview of the business and financial highlights at 12:55 a.m. EST, Tuesday, November 10, 2009. The event will be available via live, listen only webcast. To access the live event, visit the Company's website at www.ormat.com and click on 'Event Calendar' under the Investor Relations heading. The presentation will be archived for up to 30 days following the conference.

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 75 U.S. patents. Ormat has built over approximately 1,200 MW of plants half for its own account and half as supplies to utilities and developers. Ormat current generating portfolio includes the following geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants: in the United States - Brady, Heber, Mammoth, Ormesa, Puna, Steamboat, OREG 1, OREG 2 and Peetz; in Guatemala - Zunil and Amatitlan; in Kenya - Olkaria III; in Nicaragua - Momotombo and in New Zealand - GDL.

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 March 2, 2009.

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.

    Ormat Technologies                Investor Relations
    Dita Bronicki                     Todd Fromer / Marybeth Csaby
    CEO                               KCSA Strategic Communications
    775-356-9029                      212-896-1215 / 212-896-1236
    dbronicki@ormat.com               tfromer@kcsa.com / mcsaby@kcsa.com