Ormat Technologies
Ormat Technologies, Inc. Announces Offering of 3 Million Shares of Common Stock
Tuesday 23 October 2007
| Dita Bronicki +1-775-356-9029 dbronicki@ormat.com |
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| Ormat Technologies, Inc. Announces Offering of 3 Million Shares of Common Stock |
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| RENO, Nev., Oct. 23 -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that it has agreed to sell 3,000,000 shares of common stock in a public offering. Lehman Brothers Inc. is acting as underwriter for the public offering. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on October 26, 2007. |
| A copy of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Lehman Brothers Inc., c/o Broadridge Integrated Distribution Services, Inc., 1155 Long Island Avenue, Englewood, New York, 11717, by email: qiana.smith@Broadridge.com or fax: (631) 254-7140, or from Ormat Technologies, Inc, 6225 Neil Road, Suite 300, Reno, Nevada, 89511-1136, telephone (775) 356-9029. |
| The Company further announced today that it has separately agreed to sell 1,105,004 shares of common stock to its parent company, Ormat Industries Ltd., in an unregistered sale complying with the requirements of Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Closing of the unregistered sale is expected to occur concurrently with the closing of the public offering. The shares of common stock issued in the unregistered sale will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. |
| The Company expects to use the aggregate net proceeds from the public offering and the unregistered sale for its general corporate purposes and those of its consolidated subsidiaries, which may include construction of geothermal and recovered energy generation power plants and other investments, and financing possible acquisitions, and to repay debt under a note issued by it to its parent company, Ormat Industries Ltd. |
| This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of the Company nor shall there be any sale of such securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. |
| About Ormat Technologies |
| Ormat Technologies, Inc. is a vertically integrated company primarily engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy- based power plants. Additionally, the Company designs, manufactures and sells geothermal and recovered energy power units and other power generating equipment, and provides related services. Ormat products and systems are covered by more than 70 patents. Ormat currently operates the following geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants: in the United States - Brady, Heber, Mammoth, Ormesa, Puna, Steamboat and OREG 1; in Guatemala - Zunil; in Kenya - Olkaria; and in Nicaragua - Momotombo. |
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