With over five decades of experience, Ormat Technologies, Inc. With our 30MW CD4 geothermal power plant and the addition of our 20MW Wister Solar power plant, which started operation last week, our total portfolio has reached 1,163MW and we are on track to reach our goals for 2023.” We are thrilled to partner with sustainability-focused electricity providers to support the power needs of these California communities while advancing our growth plans. “We look forward to leveraging our proven capabilities to help deliver clean energy to our partners and their end-users, while also ensuring grid reliability. These three strategic PPAs support Ormat’s long-term plans to grow our geothermal business in California, while also demonstrating the value of Ormat’s unique binary technology in providing zero-emission, renewable energy at affordable prices,” commented Doron Blachar, Ormat’s Chief Executive Officer. “We are pleased to begin operation of CD4. CD4 is a state-of-the-art, air-cooled binary facility that provides stable and reliable renewable benefits twenty-four hours a day, with zero carbon emissions. In addition, the facility provides 16 MW of geothermal power to the Southern California Public Power Authority under a 25-year agreement.ĬD4 is the first geothermal power plant built within the California Independent System Operator balancing authority in the last 30 years and will be the first in Ormat’s portfolio that will sell its output to a Community Choice Aggregator. The CD4 facility provides 7 MW of geothermal power to two Community Choice Aggregators, Silicon Valley Clean Energy and Central Coast Community Energy, each under a 10-year power purchase agreement (“PPA”). (NYSE: ORA), a leading geothermal, energy storage, solar PV and recovered energy power company, today announced the commercial operation of the Casa Diablo-IV (“CD4”) 30 MW geothermal power plant. There is a two to three square-mile area between the proposed and existing geothermal wells in the Basalt Canyon and the District’s well field for which no boreholes have been drilled or wells constructed.RENO, Nev., J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Ormat Technologies, Inc.Inadequate hydrogeologic characterization.No mitigation of impacts to the cold groundwater were required because no impacts were assumed.Computer simulations of the geothermal reservoir described in the Joint NEPA/CEQA Document did not include simulation of the cold groundwater and geothermal systems together.Therefore no impacts were projected to the cold groundwater system and MCWD.Ormat assumed no impact to the shallow cold-groundwater system – no definitive analysis to confirm assumption.Shallow cold-groundwater system is hydraulically isolated from the geothermal system.Joint NEPA/CEQA Conclusions Regarding the Degree of Hydraulic Connection MCWD Review WEI reviewed portions of administrative copy of Joint NEPA/CEQA Document in July 2012 and provided comments WEI and Schmidt reviewed the draft Joint NEPA/CEQA Document and prepared comments in January and February 2013 MCWD submitted these to the lead agencies WEI provided a comment letter in July 2013 responding to the final Joint NEPA/CEQA Document’s response to the MCWD’s comments on the draft Joint NEPA/CEQA Document Finally, WEI provided a letter report in August 2013 outlining a recommended monitoring and mitigation plan Injection wells will be located in the Casa Diablo area.Geothermal production will be increased from:.16 New geothermal well sites with 14 in Basalt Canyon.Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project Technical Assessment of the NEPA/CEQA Documentation, the Potential Impacts to MCWD, and Next Steps September 16, 2013
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