(Carson, CA) Ormat Technologies, a leading renewable energy provider is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson (BGCC) to support its Healthy Lifestyles program for elementary school students. Through this partnership, Ormat will fund sports equipment for students to use throughout their after-school athletic programming. This will support over 150 students each year access exciting wellness opportunities that promote health, teamwork, and sportsmanship among club members.
Ormat believes that empowering youth through sport is critical to developing the next generation of leaders in our communities. This week, Ormat’s Vice President of Business Development, Kyle Snyder, visited BGCC to share the new sports equipment with students during their after-school program.
“Ormat is proud to partner with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson to invest in the future of Carson youth,” Snyder said. “Sports are a powerful tool to teach lifelong leadership skills, and this contribution reflects our commitment to helping young people reach their full potential.”
Kim Richards, BGCC CEO, conveyed her appreciation for Ormat’s generous donation.
“We are deeply grateful to Ormat Technologies for their partnership,” Richards said. “Their donation of sports equipment will help play a vital role in building character, teamwork, and confidence in Carson youth.”
About Ormat
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 robust plans to accelerate long-term growth in the energy storage market and to establish a leading position in the U.S. energy storage market. 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. The Company has engineered, manufactured and constructed power plants, which it currently owns or has installed for utilities and developers worldwide, totaling approximately 3,400MW of gross capacity. Ormat leveraged its core capabilities in the geothermal and REG industries and its global presence to expand the Company’s activity into energy storage services, solar Photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage plus Solar PV. Ormat’s current total generating portfolio is 1,500MW with a 1,230MW geothermal and solar generation portfolio that is spread globally in the U.S., Kenya, Guatemala, Indonesia, Honduras, and Guadeloupe, and a 270MW energy storage portfolio that is located in the U.S. Ormat is proposing to build the Griffith Energy Storage Project, a 100 megawatt/400 megawatt-hour facility in the City of Carson.