Ormat Signs $22.3 Million Contract for Recovered Energy Generation Project (News Release)
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A GRC Fieldtrip visits the Goodsprings Recovered Energy Generation
Power Plant south of Las Vegas in 2013 (Courtesy Paul Mustakim) |
Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a $22.3 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with the
Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). Ormat will install an air-cooled
Ormat Energy Converter at the
Kern River Gas Transmission Company’s Veyo natural gas compressor station in southern Utah. Ormat’s energy converter will generate power using heat that would have otherwise gone to waste.
The Veyo project, which is expected to go online in fall 2016, marks the second Recovered Energy Generation (REG) facility on the Kern River natural gas pipeline after the Goodsprings Recovered Energy Generation Power Plant south of Las Vegas, in operation for over four years and providing 7 MW of power.
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