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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001437749-18-010075
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		4
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20180515
ITEM INFORMATION:		Results of Operations and Financial Condition
ITEM INFORMATION:		Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180516
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180516

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001296445
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		IRS NUMBER:				880326081
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32347
		FILM NUMBER:		18838791

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6225 NEIL ROAD, SUITE 300
		CITY:			RENO
		STATE:			NV
		ZIP:			89511-1136
		BUSINESS PHONE:		775-356-9029

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6225 NEIL ROAD, SUITE 300
		CITY:			RENO
		STATE:			NV
		ZIP:			89511-1136
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</b><br>
<b>Washington, D.C. 20549</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>FORM 8-K</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>CURRENT REPORT</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 15, 2018</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><u><b>Ormat Technologies, Inc.</b></u></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;">(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>6225 Neil Road</b><b>,</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:54pt;">Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">&nbsp;&#9744;&nbsp;Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Item 2.02 </b><b> </b><b>Results of Operations and Financial Condition</b>.&nbsp;</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">On May 16, 2018, Ormat Technologies, Inc. (&ldquo;Ormat&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) issued a press release announcing, among other things, a further delay in filing the Company&rsquo;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2018 and that the Company will restate its second, third and fourth quarter 2017 financial statements and its full-year 2017 financial statements, which is described in greater detail in Item 4.02 below. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K and is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Item </b><b>4.02</b><b> &nbsp;&nbsp;</b><b>Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review</b><b>.</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">On May 16, 2018, Ormat announced that it will restate its second, third and fourth quarter financial statements and its full-year 2017 financial statements. This decision was approved by, and with the continuing oversight of, the Company&rsquo;s Board of Directors upon the recommendation of its Audit Committee.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">As a result of the restatement, investors should no longer rely upon the Company&#39;s previously issued financial statements for the periods set forth above, earnings releases for these periods, and other communications relating to these financial statements. In addition, the Company is further delaying the filing of the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for its first quarter of 2018 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">The decision to restate these financial statements is based on the Company&rsquo;s conclusion that there were errors in the income tax provision primarily relating to the Company&rsquo;s valuation allowance based on the Company&rsquo;s ability to utilize foreign tax credits in the U.S. prior to their expiration. Additionally, the Company netted certain deferred income tax assets and deferred income tax liabilities across different tax jurisdictions that are not permitted to be netted pursuant to United States generally accepted accounting principles. The restatement is expected to impact the &ldquo;income tax (provision) benefit&rdquo; line item in the Company&rsquo;s statements of operations, with associated impacts to net income and earnings per share and the &ldquo;deferred income taxes&rdquo; line items on its balance sheet. In connection with the restatement of the full-year 2017 financial statements, the Company will also make revisions to the same line items in certain quarterly financial statements for 2016 and its full-year 2016 and 2015 financial statements.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Although the Company cannot at this time estimate when it will complete the restatement and refile its restated financial statements and its Form 10-Q for the first quarter of 2018, it is diligently pursuing completion of the restatement and intends to file the Form 10-Q as soon as reasonably practicable. Because the Company has not yet fully completed its review, the impact of the restatement described above is preliminary and subject to change.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">As previously reported, the Company identified a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting related to accounting for income taxes. Management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors, continues to dedicate significant resources and efforts to improve the Company&rsquo;s control environment and take steps to address the material weakness&nbsp;identified. These efforts are intended both to address the identified material weakness&nbsp;and to enhance the Company&rsquo;s overall financial control environment.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has discussed the matters disclosed in this Item 4.02 with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the Company&rsquo;s independent registered public accounting firm.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Item </b><b>9.01</b><b> &nbsp;&nbsp;</b><b>Financial Statements and Exhibits.</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">(d) Exhibits. The following exhibit is being furnished as part of this Report.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><u><b>Exhibit</b></u><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;</b><u><b>Description of Document</b></u></p>

<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">&nbsp; 99.1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="ex_114659.htm" style="-sec-extract:exhibit;">Press release of Ormat Technologies, Inc., dated May 16, 2018.</a></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;"><b>Safe Harbor Statement</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Information provided in this press release contains statements relating to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are &ldquo;forward-looking statements&rdquo; as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements of our expectations regarding the Company&rsquo;s intended actions, timing and assessment related to the restatement of the Company&rsquo;s financial statements for the restated periods described above.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">These forward-looking statements are based on our current beliefs, assumptions and expectations concerning future events, which, in turn, are based on information currently available to the Company. Such forward-looking statements include the expected impact of the restatement for each of the restated periods. Although the Company believes that the expectations underlying any of these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these expectations may prove to be incorrect and all of these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or contemplated by the forward-looking statements including, without limitation, additional information that may become known prior to the expected filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the restated financial statements for the restated periods or that subsequent events may occur that require the Company to make additional adjustments to such restated financial statements.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:center;"><b>SIGNATURE</b></p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Dated:&nbsp;&nbsp;May 16, 2018</p>

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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">Smadar Lavi</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">VP Corporate Finance and Head of Investor Relations</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">775-356-9029 (ext. 65726)</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">slavi@ormat.com</p>
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			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">Rob Fink</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">Hayden - IR</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">646-415-8972</p>

			<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:justify;">rob@haydenir.com</p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">RENO, Nev. May 16, 2018, Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA) announced today that it will restate its second, third and fourth quarter 2017 financial statements and its full-year 2017 financial statements. This decision was approved by, and with the continuing oversight of, the Company&rsquo;s Board of Directors upon the recommendation of its Audit Committee.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">As a result of the restatement, investors should no longer rely upon the Company&#39;s previously issued financial statements for the periods set forth above, earnings releases for these periods, and other communications relating to these financial statements. In addition, the Company is further delaying the filing of the quarterly report on Form 10-Q for its first quarter of 2018 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">The decision to restate these financial statements is based on the Company&rsquo;s conclusion that there were errors in the income tax provision primarily relating to the Company&rsquo;s valuation allowance based on the Company&rsquo;s ability to utilize foreign tax credits in the U.S. prior to their expiration. Additionally, the Company netted certain deferred income tax assets and deferred income tax liabilities across different tax jurisdictions that are not permitted to be netted pursuant to United States generally accepted accounting principles. The restatement is expected to impact the &ldquo;income tax (provision) benefit&rdquo; line item in the Company&rsquo;s statements of operations, with associated impacts to net income and earnings per share and the &ldquo;deferred income taxes&rdquo; line items on its balance sheet. In connection with the restatement of the full-year 2017 financial statements, the Company will also make revisions to the same line items in certain quarterly financial statements for 2016 and its full-year 2016 and 2015 financial statements.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Although the Company cannot at this time estimate when it will complete the restatement and refile its restated financial statements and its Form 10-Q for the first quarter of 2018, it is diligently pursuing completion of the restatement and intends to file the Form 10-Q as soon as reasonably practicable. Because the Company has not yet fully completed its review, the impact of the restatement described above is preliminary and subject to change.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">As previously reported, the Company identified a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting related to accounting for income taxes. Management, with the oversight of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors, continues to dedicate significant resources and efforts to improve the Company&rsquo;s control environment and take steps to address the material weakness&nbsp;identified. These efforts are intended both to address the identified material weakness&nbsp;and to enhance the Company&rsquo;s overall financial control environment.</p>

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			<td>6225 Neil Road Reno, Nevada &nbsp;&bull; &nbsp;+1-775-356-9029 &nbsp;&bull; &nbsp;ormat@ormat.com</td>
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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;text-transform:uppercase;">About Ormat Technologies</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">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 &ndash; a power generation unit that converts low-, medium- and high-temperature heat into electricity. With 77 U.S. patents, Ormat&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">Information provided in this press release contains statements relating to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are &quot;forward-looking statements&quot; as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements of our expectations regarding the Company&rsquo;s intended actions, timing and assessment related to the restatement of the Company&rsquo;s financial statements for the restated periods described above.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">These forward-looking statements are based on our current beliefs, assumptions and expectations concerning future events, which, in turn, are based on information currently available to the Company. Such forward-looking statements include the expected impact of the restatement for each of the restated periods. Although we believe that the expectations underlying any of these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these expectations may prove to be incorrect and all of these statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or contemplated by the forward-looking statements including, without limitation, additional information that may become known prior to the expected filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the restated financial statements for the restated periods or that subsequent events may occur that require the Company to make additional adjustments to such restated financial statements.</p>

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<p style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0pt;text-align:left;">These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.</p>

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