RENO, Nev. — Ormat Technologies Inc., Reno-based renewable energy developer and supplier, has announced the promotion of Kyle Snyder to Vice President of Business Development-Energy Storage and the addition of Kiley Moore as Director of Business Development-Geothermal Origination.
Snyder has over 13 years of renewable energy development experience with Ormat, where he managed the permitting, interconnection, transmission, and origination teams to support the development of Ormat’s geothermal projects. In his new role, Snyder leads the energy storage business development team, which focuses on originating and developing Ormat’s extensive pipeline of projects in various markets. The business development team focuses on site analysis and selection, land acquisition, interconnection, permitting, and obtaining commercial agreements. Prior to this role, he was the Senior Director of Business Development for Ormat. Snyder received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno.
With Snyder’s promotion, Moore has been hired to manage Ormat’s robust pipeline of geothermal projects including securing interconnection, transmission service and power purchase agreements. She brings more than 15 years of experience in the utility industry including prior work for a regulated utility managing a team that focused on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulations, Open Access Transmission Tariff compliance, queue management and contract management. Throughout her career, she managed transmission development and asset management, negotiated complex contracts with customers for interconnection, established the first incremental transmission service rate used for a Network Customer filed at FERC, and managed regulatory compliance. Moore has a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Supply Chain Management and Marketing and has her Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno.
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About Ormat Technologies
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 3,200 MW 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 1.1 GW that comprises a 1,015 MW of geothermal and Solar portfolio that is spread globally in the U.S., Kenya, Guatemala, Indonesia, Honduras, and Guadeloupe and an 83 MW energy storage portfolio that is located in the U.S.