Yoram Bronicki
Analyst · Ben Kallo with Baird
Thank you, Joseph, and good morning, everyone. Starting with Slide 16. As you have seen in Joseph's presentation, we had good results for our Electricity segment with total generation increasing to approximately 980,000 megawatt-hours in the quarter with good cost control. The Jersey Valley project is currently operating below its lowest design capacity. This is primarily due to the need to shut down one of the injection wells that was rendered unusable by old mining wells that we believe were not adequately plugged and abandoned. We plan to drill additional wells and add injection capacity for the project. We have applied for the necessary permits and expect to receive such permits and complete the additional drilling by year end. Due to the delay in reaching the design generation, we will need to get time extension from the PPA offtake. There were no major events in North Brawley since the previous call. We've been focusing on minimizing the operating expenses while we develop a plan to increase capacity of the plant. We did drill a production well that we expect to be successful and have increased revenues and reduced costs. For an update on our future growth, please turn to Slide 17 in -- where you can see the status and expected completion schedule for each project under construction. In McGinness Hills, we are progressing with the field development and power plant equipment is in transit to the site. We made progress in the acquisition of the required construction permits, and required environmental assessment is in process. In Tuscarora, we have completed the field development and physical construction of the power plant is in full swing. As for the CD4 project, we have been working on permitting and expect to resume field development in third quarter. As you can see in the slide, we changed the capacity to 30 megawatt. We still expect the total capacity from the re-powering of Mammoth and CD4 to be between 65 and 70 megawatt. The change reflects our expectation to divert more megawatts into the re-power facility. But this may change as we continue the development. In the Wild Rose prospect, which we'll formally refer to as DH Wells, we drilled 2 wells in the prolific low-temperature shallow reservoir and continue to explore the deep reservoir. We plan to release the power plant to construction upon completion of the resource evaluation. We have continued drilling for Phase 3 of our Olkaria plants in Kenya, and the power plant equipment manufacturing is in progress. We originally planned to resume the development activity in the Carson Lake project in Nevada upon the receipt of an environmental impact study for the project. The approval of the required study is still pending and, therefore, there is no certainty that we can complete the project by 2013. We have also started the process of terminating the old PPA for the project, then we'll work to develop one that fits the new characteristics and timeline of the project. On Slide 18, you can see the detailed list of projects under development. In Wister, the exploration progress still probably suggest that we may not be eligible for an ITC cash grant. In Indonesia, the Sarulla project, we have reached a critical point in the negotiation with the offtaker, PLN, and the resource owner, PGE. The consortium continues its effort to reach agreement for the contractual amendments required for bankability. We hope to reach an agreement at the near term. However, there is still no certainty on the outcome of the negotiation. We're on various stages of construction and development of 8 projects that are expected to be completed by the end of 2013 and will contribute approximately 175 megawatts to our portfolio. In addition, we have approximately 130 megawatts in various stages of development. Turning to Slide 19. In addition to projects under construction and development, we also have 32 sites in early exploration or where activity is yet to begin. This quarter, we started drilling in 2 sites in the United States and signed our first BOT agreement in New Zealand. Since the beginning of 2011, we have increased our land position by approximately 12,000 acres in Nevada, Oregon, California and New Zealand. In total, our land position for future development increased 355,000 acres and an additional 264,000 acres under geothermal lease option agreements. Let us now turn to Slide 20 for an update on the Product segment. We successfully secured new EPC and equipment supply contracts. This quarter, we were awarded one supply and one EPC contract, which represents the largest product order in our company's history. And as of the end of the quarter, we have a backlog of approximately $225 million, which will positively impact our Product segment revenues over the next 3 years. We were pleased with the increase in this segment. However, as described in the past, this segment is less predictable and tends to be cyclical. I'd like to turn the call back over to Dita to address this further.