Ormat Technologies
Nirit Grushko serves as the Senior Vice President of Engineering, R&D, and Innovation at Ormat Technologies, Inc. since January 2018. Previously, Nirit held significant positions at Intel Corporation from 2011 to October 2016, including Senior Staff Member in Technology and Operations and Head of Training and Development. In these roles, Nirit managed factory operations, built a high-performing team that achieved record production efficiencies, and led a healthcare collaboration initiative in Israel. Earlier experience includes serving as Engineering Department Manager at Numonyx, where Nirit co-led a large engineering team and significantly improved factory capacity and employee retention. Nirit holds an Executive MBA from Tel Aviv University and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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Ormat Technologies
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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 77 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 770 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 2,600 MW of gross capacity. Ormat’s current 851 MW generating portfolio is spread globally in the United States, Guatemala, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Indonesia and Kenya. In March 2017, Ormat expanded its operations to provide energy storage and energy management 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 energy storage, demand response and energy management.