Ormat Technologies
Yehiel (Yale) Viner has extensive work experience in various leadership roles. Yehiel (Yale) is currently serving as the VP Technical and Maintenance at Ormat Technologies, Inc., a position they have held since March 2023. Prior to that, they were the Director Control and Automation at the same company from November 2021 to February 2023.
Before joining Ormat Technologies, Inc., Yehiel worked at Israel Natural Gas Lines (INGL) as the Electrical and Control division manager from July 2017 to November 2021.
Yehiel also has entrepreneurial experience, having founded and served as the CEO of Tiffo Investments Ltd. from January 2014 to June 2017. In this role, they focused on financing and implementing smart cities and energy efficient projects.
Prior to Tiffo Investments, Yehiel co-founded and served as CEO of Menolinx systems, where they designed and manufactured smart grid and smart city solutions. Yehiel (Yale) established distribution channels for Menolinx products worldwide and led the company from January 2006 to December 2013.
Additionally, Yehiel co-founded and served as CEO of Lead Control Ltd, a company specializing in control and automation, building management, and security systems. Yehiel (Yale) successfully delivered numerous projects globally and developed several products during their tenure from August 1988 to December 2013.
Yehiel also had previous roles at Baran Group as a Partnership from 2000 to 2005, Ludan Group as a Control engineer from 1987 to 1989, and Texel Electronics as a Project Engineer from January 1985 to July 1988.
Yehiel (Yale) Viner holds a B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which they obtained between 1982 and 1986. Yehiel (Yale) also pursued an MBA in Finance at Tel Aviv University from 2002 to 2003.
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.