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                            August 11, 2022

       Assaf Ginzburg
       Chief Financial Officer
       ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
       6140 Plumas Street
       Reno, Nevada 89519-6075

                                                        Re: ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.
                                                            Forms 8-K
                                                            Filed June 27, 2022
and August 4, 2022
                                                            File No. 001-32347

       Dear Mr. Ginzburg:

              We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In
some of our
       comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your
       disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Forms 8-K filed June 27, 2022 and August 4, 2022

       General

   1.                                                   We note that your Item
1.01 and 8.01 Form 8-K filed June 27, 2022 announced that you
                                                        entered into an
indenture for the issuance of Senior Convertible Notes. Attached to
                                                        the June 27, 2022 Form
8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and 99.2 are press releases in which you
                                                        disclose that the
Company intends to offer    Green Convertible Senior Notes    due
                                                        2027. You further
attached to a August 4, 2022 Item 2.02 Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 your
                                                        press release
announcing the results of operations for the fiscal quarter ended June 30,
                                                        2022, where you
disclosed the closing of the offering of $431.3 million in "green
                                                        convertible senior
notes" due in 2027. Please provide to us, and explain where you have
                                                        made available to
investors, an explanation of what the    Green    Convertible Senior Notes
                                                        designation means,
including whether this designation carries any legal meaning.
   2.                                                   In your Form 10-Q for
Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2022 on pages 37-38 you disclose
                                                        that the net proceeds
from the sale of the notes were approximately $420.4 million. You
 Assaf Ginzburg
FirstName LastNameAssaf Ginzburg
ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES,      INC.
Comapany
August 11, NameORMAT
           2022        TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
August
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         disclosed that you used (1) approximately $18.0 million of the net
proceeds from this
         offering to repurchase concurrently with the closing of the offering
shares of your
         common stock in privately negotiated transactions at a price per share
equal to $69.45, (2)
         approximately $24.5 million of the net proceeds from this offering to
pay the cost of the
         capped call transactions, (3) approximately $221.9 million to fund the
prepayment of
         your Series 3 Bonds, and accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and
make-whole payments,
         and (4) the remainder for general corporate purposes. You further
disclose that you intend
         to allocate an amount equivalent to the net proceeds from this
offering to finance and/or
         refinance, in whole or in part, one or more eligible green projects in
accordance with the
         Company   s Green Finance Framework, and that in addition to proceeds
from the offering,
         you may use cash from operations or borrowings under your credit
facilities in order to
         effect such allocation. Given this description of your use of the
proceeds from the notes
         offering, explain your basis for describing the notes as    Green
Convertible Senior Notes"
         in your Forms 8-K. We also note such references to "convertible green
notes" and "green
         convertible bonds" in your earnings call transcript and earnings call
slides available on
         your website for the Q2 earnings conference call.
3.       Provide to us, and explain where you have made available to investors,
a description of
         your Green Finance Framework, including any criteria or standards this
framework
         suggests or requires for the selection of projects. In your response,
describe eligible green
         projects and tell us how and by whom the Green Finance Framework was
developed,
         reviewed and/or approved.
4.       You disclose that you intend to allocate an amount equivalent to the
net proceeds from
         this offering to finance and/or refinance, in whole or in part, one or
more eligible green
         projects in accordance with the Green Finance Framework, and that in
addition to
         proceeds from the offering, you may use cash from operations or
borrowings under your
         credit facilities in order to effect such allocation. Explain whether
you are
         contractually required to allocate an amount equivalent to the net
proceeds from this
         offering to finance and/or refinance the eligible green projects.
Please also explain why
         the framework means that you are offering    green    Convertible
Senior Notes.
        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.
 Assaf Ginzburg
ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
August 11, 2022
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      Please contact Kevin Dougherty, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3271 or Loan
Lauren
Nguyen, Legal Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3642 with any other questions.



                                                        Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameAssaf Ginzburg
                                                        Division of Corporation
Finance
Comapany NameORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                                                        Office of Energy &
Transportation
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cc:       Colin Diamond
FirstName LastName