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Ormat Technologies Inc. is a provider of alternative and renewable energy technology based in Reno, Nevada. The company’s main production facilities are based in Yavne, Israel. To date the company has installed over 750 power units, built over 150 power plants and installed over 2,000 MW worldwide. Ormat also owns and operates 650 MW of geothermal and recovered energy based power plants. The company shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2004 and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 1991, it is currently included in the TA-25 Index. ==History== Ormat was established in 1965 as Ormat Turbines Ltd. (later renamed Ormat Industries), in Yavne, Israel, by engineer Lucien Bronicki (who was the company's chairman and CTO until 2014) and wife Yehudit "Dita" Bronicki (who served as CEO until 2014). In the late 1950s Lucien Bronicki worked in a government physics laboratory, where he developed a turbine to produce electricity from a range of energy sources, including solar; the process is known as organic Rankine cycle, which he co-developed with Harry Zvi Tabor. He retired from the lab to commercialize his ideas and set up Ormat. In its early years the company focused exclusively on manufacturing power generation equipment. The 1970s energy crisis increased interest in efficient generation technology. To exploit this situation, Ormat obtained financial assistance from the Israeli government and raised capital from private investors to build one of the world's first solar-driven power stations. However the power station was not economically viable and was abandoned in 1988. During the 1980s Ormat developed generation systems utilizing recovered energy, i.e. heat emitted during industrial processes. The company also applied its technology to generate electricity from geothermal sources. In 1986, Ormat designed and supplied geothermal power solutions to the Kawerau Power Station in New Zealand. Since then 13 geothermal power plant were built by Ormat in New Zealand.〔(The World’s Largest Binary Geothermal Power Plant Opens in New Zealand ) 〕 In 1989, Ormat supplied geothermal equipment for the regional heating system at Sudurnes Iceland; which utilities the abundant local geothermal resources to provide heating for 20,000 people.〔(Sudurnes Regional Heating Corp. )〕 In the 1990s the company decided not only to provide power generation equipment, but also to own and operate alternative and renewable energy power stations. In 1991, the company, then as Ormat Industries, listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In 1992, Ormat acquired a controlling stake of Bet Shemesh Engines, a manufactures parts for jet engines, that also overhauls, maintains and assembles jet engines. In 2005, Ormat sold its shares the company.〔(Bronicki Family Parts Ways With Revamped Bet Shemesh Engines ), Haaretz, 8 April 2005 〕 In 2004, Ormat Technologies, completed an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange raising $100 million. Ormat Technologies was founded in 1994 as a US subsidiary of Ormat Industries. Following the initial public offering, Ormat Industries was restructured as a holding company that was still listed in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, while shifting all its operations to the subsidiary Ormat Technologies.〔(Ormat Technologies files for $100m Wall St. IPO ), Globes, 21/07/2004 〕 In 2006, Ormat received for the first time, an order for to supply equipment for a Geothermal Power Plant in Germany. In February 2015, Ormat Technologies Inc. acquired its parent company, Ormat Industries Ltd., in an all-stock merger, in an attempt to streamlining and simplify it's corporate structure. Shareholders of Ormat Technologies retained about 38 percent of the company’s shares, while Ormat Industries Ltd. shareholders owned the remaining 62 percent. Ormat Technologies Inc. shares were listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.〔(Ormat Technologies to Acquire Parent Company in All-Stock Merger ), Bloomberg, November 10, 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ormat Technologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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