Ormat brings online waste heat recovery projects along pipeline

Seattle (Platts)--12Oct2006

Ormat Technologies Thursday said it had brought online four plants
totaling 22 MW that use waste heat from compressor stations along the Northern
Border Pipeline in North and South Dakota.

"This will be our largest recovered energy project to date and the first
of its type under our direct ownership," Dita Bronicki, president and CEO of
Ormat, said in a statement. The plants generate power using hot exhaust gases
from existing natural gas turbines that operate compressor stations. The
plants produce clean energy from the gases and do not produce greenhouse gas
emissions, Ormat said.

Basin Electric of Bismarck, North Dakota, will buy the power under a
25-year contract. The pipeline carries natural gas from Canada to Chicago and
is owned by TC Pipelines and Northern Border Partners.

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