Ormat Technologies, Inc. Reschedules Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2017 Financial Results and Conference Call Date

REPORTING RESCHEDULED TO ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL REVIEW OF CERTAIN U.S. TAX RELATED MATTERS

RENO, Nev., Feb. 21, 2018 -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ORA) announced today that it has rescheduled its fourth quarter and year-end 2017 earnings release and conference call date to Thursday, March 1st, 2018.

The call has been rescheduled because additional time is needed to complete the company's review of certain U.S. tax related matters.

CONFERENCE CALL DETAILS

Ormat will host a conference call to discuss its financial results on Thursday, March 1st, 2018, at 10 a.m. ET. The call will be available as a live, listen-only webcast at investor.ormat.com. During the webcast, management will refer to slides that will be posted on the website. The slides and accompanying webcast can be accessed through the News & Events in the Investor Relations section of Ormat’s website.

An archive of the webcast will be available approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the live call.
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Participant telephone numbers
Participant dial in (toll free):   1-877-511-6790                                             
Participant international dial in:  1-412-902-4141                                       
Canada Toll Free:  1-855-669-9657                                                               

Conference replay
US Toll Free:  1-877-344-7529,                                                                       
International Toll:  1-412-317-0088                                                
                               

ABOUT ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES

With over five decades of experience, Ormat Technologies, Inc. is a leading geothermal company and the only vertically integrated company engaged in geothermal and recovered energy generation (REG), with the objective of becoming a leading global provider of renewable energy. The company owns, operates, designs, manufactures and sells geothermal and REG power plants primarily based on the Ormat Energy Converter – a power generation unit that converts low-, medium- and high-temperature heat into electricity. With 73 U.S. patents, Ormat’s power solutions have been refined and perfected under the most grueling environmental conditions. Ormat has 530 employees in the United States and 720 overseas. Ormat’s flexible, modular solutions for geothermal power and REG are ideal for the vast range of resource characteristics. The company has engineered, manufactured and constructed power plants, which it currently owns or has installed to utilities and developers worldwide, totaling over 2,500 MW of gross capacity. Ormat’s current approximately 800 MW generating portfolio is spread globally in the U.S., Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Indonesia and Kenya. Ormat also intends to expand its operations and provide energy management and energy storage solutions, by leveraging its core capabilities and global presence as well as through its Viridity Energy Solutions, Inc. subsidiary, a Philadelphia-based company with nearly a decade of expertise and leadership in demand response, energy management and storage.

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 1, 2017.

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.