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Ormat Technologies, Inc. (ORA)

Q4 2010 Earnings Call· Wed, Feb 23, 2011

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Operator

Operator

Good morning. My name is Wes, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Ormat Technologies Fourth Quarter and Year End Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I'll now turn the conference over to Marybeth Csaby. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Marybeth Csaby

Analyst · Avondale

Thank you, Wes. Hosting the call today are Dita Bornicki, Chief Executive Officer; Yoram Bornicki, President and Chief Operating Officer; Joseph Tenne, Chief Financial Officer; and Smadar Lavi, Vice President of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Before beginning, we would like to remind you that information provided during this call may contain forward-looking statements related to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are forward-looking, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally related to the company's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations and are based on management's current estimates and projections of future results or trends. Actual future results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, please see risk factors as described in the annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 8, 2010. In addition, during this call, statements may include financial measures defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA. The presentation of this financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Management of Ormat Technologies believes that adjusted EBITDA may provide meaningful supplemental information regarding liquidity measurement that both management and investors benefit from referring to this GAAP financial measure in assessing Ormat Technologies' liquidity, and when planning and forecasting future periods. This non-GAAP financial measure may also facilitate management's internal comparison to the company's historical liquidity. Before I turn the call over to management, I would like to remind everyone that a slide presentation accompanies this call, and can be accessed on Ormat's website at www.ormat.com under the IR and Presentations link, as found on the Investor Relations tab. With that said, I would like to turn the call over to Dita. Dita, the floor is yours.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

Thanks, Marybeth. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for the presentation of the summary of 2010 and the outlook for the near future. 2010 was highlighted by strong production in the Electricity segment. Year-over-year output increased by more than half a million megawatt hour and segment revenue grew by over 15%. Despite the number of unique challenges at North Brawley electricities [ph] in plants for long-term growth continue unimpeded. As Yoram will explain for later in the call, we have made considerable progress in our construction, development and exploration activities. In parallel, we raised the capital required to support such activities. Let me turn the call over to Joseph for a review of the financial. Yoram will review our operations and as usual, following my remarks, we will open the call up for Q&A. Joseph?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Thank you, Dita, and good morning, everyone. Beginning Slide 5, our Electricity segment revenues for the year were $291.8 million, a 15.5% increase compared to $252.6 million in the previous year. The increase in revenue is due to 14% increase in total electricity generation as a result of additional generation and capacity with Puna, North Brawley and Mammoth being the major contributors. The increase also positively reflected by a slight increase in the average revenue rate of our electricity portfolio. In our Product segment on Slide 6, revenue for the year were $81.4 million, a 48.9% decrease from $159.4 million in the previous year. This decrease in our product revenues is a result of a decline in our Product segment customers' orders which we have discussed in previous calls. For the year ended December 31, 2010, total revenues were $373.2 million, compared to $412 million in the previous year as shown in Slide 7. Moving to the next slide, the total gross margin was 20.8%, compared to 29.2% last year. Gross margin of the Electricity segment was 17%, compared to 29.1% last year. As anticipated, the decrease in gross margin derived mainly from gross margin loss of $24.6 million in North Brawley and an increase in the depreciation amount related to the acquisition of the Mammoth complex. A $25 million out of deferred revenue of the Mammoth complex and the acquisition date of the additional 50% ownership, which was allocated to the existing plant is being depreciated until the complex is repowered in 2013. However, in the mean time, this cost will continue to negatively affect our gross margin. The North Brawley power plant was tested under U.S. GAAP guidance for impairment in the current year due to the low output and the higher-than-expected operating costs. Based on these indicators,…

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Goldman Sachs

Good morning, everybody. I'd like to start with operational highlights on Slide 18. The total generation for 2010 was 3.76 million megawatt hour. This represents an increase of 14% from 2009 and approximate 60% increase in total generation over the past five years. Steady growth and total generation each year is a result of completing new projects and enhancement to the existing plants. In 2010, we had a 35 megawatt of capacity to our portfolio including 14.5 megawatt that were added in August once completed acquisition of the Mammoth complex. 5.5 megawatt were added through the commercial operation of the OREG 3 REG Power Plant near Martin County, Minnesota. 15 megawatts were added from the Jersey Valley Power Plant. The plant construction was completed and it was placed in service in the end of 2010, while some oil field work remains to be completed. Our Jersey Valley project was the only utility scale geothermal plant completed in the United States during 2010. The plant is currently operating at about 7 megawatt, and we expect commercial operation in the second quarter of 2011. As you were able to see in Joseph's presentation, the overall good performance of the electricity sector has been heavily affected by the North Brawley power plant and I will summarize the progress at the plant in the following slides. During 2010, we made substantial progress, both in the ability to generate power and in the reduction of the costs associated with operating the facility. Most of our attention was given to the stabilization and increase of injection capacity and we were able to more than double it over the course of the year. In terms of injection capacity, we were able to increase injection flow from a level that support approximately 17 megawatt in the beginning of…

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

Thank you, Yoram. Let me start with Slide 28 to review some of the financing activities in 2010. During the year, we continued to secure our goal by providing the required financing. Relayed in August and February this year, $250 million for the sale of seven-year senior unsecured bonds. The profit from the offering are utilized to fund goals and has temporarily reduced our corporate goal decline. We closed earlier this month the OPC refinancing transaction in which we sold to JPMorgan our Class B membership increasing OPC for $24.9 million. JPM will be able to benefit from the production tax credit that the OPC projects are eligible for, stock depreciation and operating cash flow generated by the project. We continue to benefit from the federal legislation as later [ph] we are now the developer ending September 2010, a portion of the equity invested in North Brawley we've refinanced is the $108 million cash grant we received under section 1603 of the ARRA. Our application for $350 million loan grant with the Department of Energy to finance three projects in Nevada; McGinness, Jersey Valley and Tuscarora is currently in due diligence stage, and we hope to be able to complete the process before the sunset of the program in September 2011. Please turn to Slide 29 where you will see the CapEx requirement for 2011. In 2011, we plan to invest $232 million for the construction of new projects, and an additional $150 million for development of new projects. We expect also to invest $46 million in exploration drillings at 2011. In addition, our capital expenditure budget for operating power plants is approximately $19 million. Approximately $10 million were budgeted for land acquisition and $10 million to invest in our production facilities. We expect a similar level of CapEx requirement…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Paul Clegg of Mizuho.

Paul Clegg - Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

Analyst · Mizuho

Dita, I thought your comments on Solar just now were very interesting. I am not sure if this is what you are saying, but is solar PV having any crowding out effect on investment in geothermal due to the lower risk of development? Are you seeing any evidence of that?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

No, not all. I think that the fact that geothermal is based low is still a substantial benefit of geothermal compared to solar PV, but I might need to adjust the facts of life. The prices of solar PV are coming down.

Paul Clegg - Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

Analyst · Mizuho

Are you reconsidering any more opportunities in the Solar business to take advantage of the fact that module prices are coming down?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

No, in my view of it, I said it still remains to be seen. The projects can really be based at these prices. What we have seen so far in the PPA side that these prices, we didn't see projects built in these prices. Having said that, we are implementing our solar PV program at a low pace, not at a very aggressive pace, both in Israel were we are in the process of securing the PPA. And in the U.S., the permitting process is of course much longer, but in several site in the U.S., we are permitting PV installations to support or to complement our geothermal generation in these sites.

Paul Clegg - Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

Analyst · Mizuho

And then a question on backlog. Backlog was up a bit this quarter, do you think we've already passed the low point on backlog. Is there any downside in the coming quarters as you work off some of those orders? And then just the $50 million, if you could comment on how much of that is recognizable in 2011. And then I noticed that you pointed out that $30 million is subject to a receipt of an LC, and I didn't know if you were clue us in that there might be some risks to that or if you're just giving full disclosure.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

We are giving full disclosure. I mean, the content of the backlog, we are confident that we will receive the LC, but we expect to recognize the full $50 million and the $15 million from the LNG plant in 2011, and we are expecting additional orders that will still be recognized during the year.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Gregg Orrill of Barclays.

Gregg Orrill - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Barclays

I was wondering if the assumption for the average price per megawatt hour in 2011 for the Electricity segment is still around that $78 level, or should we be thinking about a different number?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Barclays

I would stay with the $78 until we get the actual prices of the new mix.

Gregg Orrill - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Barclays

And then in the event that you would have to take an impairment on North Brawley, is there any cash impact to that?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Barclays

No, it's only accounting impact, no cash.

Gregg Orrill - Barclays Capital

Analyst · Barclays

And then the third question is just around -- the intra-segment revenue for products is $70 million there. Just if you could provide some color on what opportunities you're seeing there, and how we should think about that going forward.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Barclays

I'm glad you're asking this question because it's something that I wanted to convey. I do hear or we did hear throughout the year concern about the low level of product backlog. And the truth is, with the manufacturing capacity of the company is used for two customers. One customer is third party customers, and this is what people reflected in our product segment sale. But the most important customer is ourself, and the sale to ourself in 2010 exceeded the level of sale to third-party. And this is what will enable us to add those hundreds of megawatts in the years to come with power plants built by ourselves for ourselves. And that's the importance of this inter-company segment.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Michael Lapides from Goldman Sachs.

Michael Lapides - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Analyst · Goldman Sachs

Dita, structurally, when you think about the project development process because from a physical standpoint you've had some issues over the last two years in terms of getting new projects online ramped up to the megawatts you originally discussed with investors. What are you doing differently or what are you planning on doing differently to avoid some of those issues going forward?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Goldman Sachs

I'm not sure we are doing differently. It's just the effect of time, which we changed. What we have definitely underestimated were the time that it takes to bring the project from -- we underestimated this a few years ago. I think, for the last two years we know it, but a few years before, we underestimated the time it takes, from the time we start to work on a grade fuel project until you can bring it out, let's say, online. And there are two elements which are delaying this. One is the time that it takes technically to prove the results, to study the results before this, and the time that is an idle time in between. And this is the time to get the permit for each stage. And when we said a few years ago that the development process from a greenfield to a complete power plant is five years. With the current delays in permitting, it may be even a little longer than five years. And this is when we are the EPC contractor for our sales and we do not depend on deliveries of third-party supplier. I think for a company that is not vertically integrated as we are, it may be even longer. Now what are we doing different? We are exploring in parallel a large number of projects. So we have in the pipeline towards completion in much larger number of projects that are going to mature some of them, not all of them. And it's another thing that we all need to remember, not all of them are going to mature to a successful project. But when you have a number of projects in exploration as we have, we will be able to shorten the time from the time we declared them a project under construction than before.

Michael Lapides - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Analyst · Goldman Sachs

Do you worry about being spread too thin, trying to do too many projects in too short of a timeframe? Which means maybe from just a labor and a human resources or human capital perspective makes it more challenging to bring in individual projects online, on time, on budget, at the right scale.

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Goldman Sachs

Michael, this is Yoram. I think the early part in your question, why is it that we don't get to the capacity that was originally declared on projects, and to couple this with your next question, I would say no, we're not spread too thin. I think that the issue that we had and we shared with our investors is that we underestimated the GAAP between successful discovery, and successful or being able to say that a certain plot is a geothermal field. And the initial estimate of what the size of the field actually is to what actually is the outcome later, at least the initial outcome when the field is -- the development drilling is completed. And I think that the -- and this has been our main issue. In a way, though Brawley is a little different, but in a way Brawley is one case where we underestimated the challenges of producing 50 megawatt. And on a smaller scale, Jersey Valley has been a field that initially we thought could just support 30 megawatt and the more we've drilled there and tested, the more difficult it seemed and we had to choose to start with a 15 megawatt facility. And I think that the solution to this is not so much about being spread thin, the solution to this is just we have to do much more front-end work on the fields that requires more wells to quantify the size and the quality. And there are the disadvantages. If we share information and assessments with the world early on, they're almost bound to become smaller or different as time goes by and what we have to do now is work on more fields and parallel, and actually not share the information until we have better certitude on what the size is.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Ben Kallo of Baird.

Benjamin Kallo - Stanford Group

Analyst · Baird

Could you guys give us an update on any disability you have in Sarulla and if any of that is included in your guidance for this year?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Baird

The Sarulla is not included in the guidance. I think we said in the prepared remarks that there is progress, but much lower than we had initially expected. And not only initially, initially and subsequently in the middle, it's a very slow process. One, we will reach the final ESC and JOC, the two projects agreement, I think things are going to move much faster. But until now it's not included in the numbers.

Benjamin Kallo - Stanford Group

Analyst · Baird

And then could you just clarify for Jersey Valley. Is there additional drilling that has to be done to get to 15 megawatts? Or, what has to be done to fully ramp that project?

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Baird

Yes, we're currently drilling one more well and we hope that, that would be all that is needed in the field. It was very important for us to complete the plant and place it in service in 2010, given the ITC criteria. We were fortunate that it was extended but we didn't rely on that. So we started it with the available well field and we think that will be done very soon.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Steven Milunovich of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Peter Christiansen

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

This is Peter Christiansen, in for Steve Milunovich. I have a quick question. Do you expect to pay taxes in 2011?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Not in this stage. We're going to pay taxes in other jurisdictions but not in this stage, mainly in Israel in [ph].

Peter Christiansen

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

So we should expect the effective tax rate to be not what it was in 2009 or 2008?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Look, the effective tax rate is not effective only by cash payments but also by deferred taxes. So the main impact on the taxes in 2010 and in, in probably in 2011 is the production tax credit that is impacting the effective tax rate mainly. Also, I should mention maybe that Product segment in Israel, tax rates are going to decrease substantially from 25% in 2010 to 15% in 2011, which is important to say.

Peter Christiansen

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

And it seems like you have a lot of construction activity going on. How should we expect to capitalize interest to trend over the year?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

I believe it will be in similar level to what we had in 2010.

Peter Christiansen

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

And then finally, can you just give us a sense of some of the benchmark for the potential impairment of North Brawley in terms of timing? Is this something that's going to be evaluated on a quarterly basis? Have you set deadlines for yourselves, so on and so forth?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Yes, the evaluation is going to be done on a quarterly basis based on the progress, but we don't have a deadline when we need to reach the 50 megawatt. As long as the -- but we will evaluate it on a quarterly basis.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Dan Mannes of Avondale.

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

A couple of questions and I apologize in advance, I missed a lilt bit on the early part of the call. As it relates to North Brawley, you had historically said you would hope to get to EPS or earnings breakeven by the middle of '11, given the new timeframe on the injection. What would be -- how should we think about the potential ramp there? I mean, can we get to breakeven EPS or even breakeven EBITDA under the current scenario?

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

We think that it may happen in the fourth quarter. We're really at an interesting phase because production is going to ramp up to the next phase very shortly, and typically this is the stage where no information comes up, the new bottlenecks are identified. So we may have better news or slightly worse news. And we'll know much better in the next few months, but we think that -- and the fourth quarter is realistic, given everything that we know today.

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

But based on, I think, the chart you had, you were showing that at 50 megawatts, given the current cost structure but on a full 50, it was about $0.107 per kilowatt hour. Is that sort of the break even EPS number in your heads or do you need to get costs below even that?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Avondale

I'm sorry, we didn't spend enough explaining the chart. The chart is not the expected cost at 50 megawatt, it was just taking the cost that we actually had in the second half of 2010. That we're still high in some areas or very high in some areas and just reconstructing it to, let's say, what are the items that are kept in the same proportion like brine processing which at this point, think that we got very close to where want to be and is now completely in there with the amount of brine versus depreciation or manpower that are pretty much a fixed cost that is either distributed on a 25 megawatt facility like in the second half of the year or in a 50 megawatt facility. I don't know if you can see the slide but the gray area, the gray block, the biggest one which is the well field, is the one that was very high in the second half, and had we operated all the wells or enough wells, it would have remained high even at the 50 megawatt level. And this is really our main focus for improvement and cost reduction. We’re working through the issues and we're confident that we'll see improvement partially due to the reservoir and partially due to the pump improvement that we're doing. And so this will not -- in our understanding of what the project will look like when it's operating at 50 megawatt or 45 megawatt, whatever the number is, this block is not expected to be as expensive as it is now. And we also had costs that were identified as other costs that again are shakedown costs that are associated with increasing the capacity over time with the impact of sand that we are now working on removing at the production wellhead rather than at the injection wellhead. And all these things are expected to go away. So the plant is 50 megawatt or even at 45 megawatt, should have substantially different cost structure. It's the things that we've learned in 2010.

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

Real briefly and just one quick follow-up on North Brawley, and I apologize if I missed this, did you mention how much of a drag it was in the fourth quarter?

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

How much, I'm sorry?

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

How much of an earnings drag it was?

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

Oh, what was the impact on earnings?

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

Yes.

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

We did not specifically mention that, did we?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

We did. Marybeth?

Marybeth Csaby

Analyst · Avondale

In the fourth quarter, it was a loss of $4.5 million.

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

And that's a fully loaded including G&A?

Marybeth Csaby

Analyst · Avondale

Including G&A, correct.

Daniel Mannes - Avondale Partners, LLC

Analyst · Avondale

Real quick, just on your guidance. For the Power segment broadly, I guess we had assume a bigger step up year-over-year, certainly some of the reduction is North Brawley, but can you talk about sort of your what's in your guidance year-over-year ? I mean are you assuming any increase in North Brawley or is it mostly just better pricing at Puna, the impact of the Puna expansion, full year of Mammoth? I guess I'm just trying to figure out the year-over-year, because it was a little lighter than I would have thought.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Avondale

It is maybe conservative, but we have been conservative and maybe we will be able to narrow the range or maybe even increase it as we continue through the year. But we have assumed a modest increase in Brawley. And Jersey Valley formed the second half of the year.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Dilip Warrier of Stifel, Nicolaus. Dilip Warrier - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: I just wanted to confirm, A, if the $15 million LNG project is included in the product revenue guidance for this year of $75 million to $85 million. And then second part of the question was backlog. I think you mentioned about $13 million was subject to LCs. And I was wondering if in the past, on a quarterly basis, the backlog numbers you provided included or excluded any business subject to LCs?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Stifel, Nicolaus

The first question -- the answer to the first question is yes, our guidance includes the $15 million of the LNG plant. I'm not sure that we have transitioned like today, in the past where the order was received and the LC wasn't received yet. But it is quite typical if you receive an order and the LC is coming later. Dilip Warrier - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: One more question then. Operating expenses in 2010 swung pretty widely on a quarter-to-quarter basis. I was wondering if you could just provide us a sense of what we could expect in 2011 at least directionally?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Stifel, Nicolaus

On operating expenses, you mean G&A and net sale and marketing? Dilip Warrier - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Yes.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Stifel, Nicolaus

We don't expect an increase in G&A. Sales and marketing is a function of the specific orders without being executed. Some have higher sales and marketing costs and some have lower, and it's not a function of volume.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from Matt Ravel [ph] of Imperial Capital.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

With net leverage, I calculate net debt divided by LTM EBITDA of around 4.3x and you mentioned that you have not fully utilized the borrowing capacity of the company and slow on substantial CapEx needs going forward. Is there a target leverage multiple or another type of number that you used that you had not wished to exceed?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

Yes, I think that we are definitely comps for computation with 6x EBITDA. We have the right to go under because of [ph] our various financing to go up to 7x EBITDA.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

And then another question on North Brawley. Is there any risk of a treasury grant recapture? And what steps might you be doing to mitigate that sort of event?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

There is no risk for recapture as long as you operate the plant and we are operating the plant. The treasury grant does not tax us for full power or partial power, only operations.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

So in any case, you plan to operate the plant. At this point, is there any risk that the plant will ever be shut down?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

No, I don't think so.

Operator

Operator

Your next question comes from JinMing Liu of Ardour Capital.

JinMing Liu - Ardour Capital Investments, LLC

Analyst · Ardour Capital

First is about your guidance regarding the Increment segment. Can you provide with us please, what percentage of your guidance is for inter-segment sales?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Ardour Capital

None. The inter-segment sales is not included in our guidance because this is not recorded as revenue. It's recorded as property plant and equipment.

JinMing Liu - Ardour Capital Investments, LLC

Analyst · Ardour Capital

Regarding the Spain REG project, that $50 million revenue. Have you recognized cost in R&D over the past few periods for that specific project?

Joseph Tenne

Analyst · Ardour Capital

Yes, we included all the cost of these projects in R&D. And those costs are even higher than the revenues that we're going to recognize.

JinMing Liu - Ardour Capital Investments, LLC

Analyst · Ardour Capital

Basically if, say, your recurrent revenue in your first quarter for this $50 million, we won't see a big bump to our EPS because of the costs.

Yoram Bronicki

Analyst · Ardour Capital

Yes, it will be revenue, it's now -- cost of revenue say for additional cost that we will incur during 2011 which are not substantial. Most of the costs have been incurred in 2009, 2010 as R&D expenses.

JinMing Liu - Ardour Capital Investments, LLC

Analyst · Ardour Capital

And lastly, recently, the House of Representatives introduced the bill that, well, basically proposed to cut away DOE loan guarantee program. If that happens, I mean there is the chance -- what are you going to do to get your financing in place for your development?

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Ardour Capital

We are planning only on one DOE guaranteed loan program and this is the -- for project Jersey Valley, McGinness and Tuscarora. I believe that they are advanced enough that the cut will not infect them. Yes it will. Looking at the work place, I don't think will happen. We will have to go to the capital now. And Brawley, a little higher rate than the DOE loan guarantee expected rate.

Operator

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen, we've reached our allotted time for Q&A for today's conference. I'll turn the conference back to management for any closing remarks.

Yehudit Bronicki

Analyst · Mizuho

Not really closing remarks, but just thank you for your attention and for your interest and we hope to deliver on what we said and maybe even better than that. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen, that concludes the Ormat Technologies Fourth Quarter and Year-End Earnings Conference Call. We appreciate your time. You may now disconnect.