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PGV parent company settles stimulus fraudlawsuitBy JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Tuesday November 1 2016 1005 am

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The whistleblower suit was led on Feb 4 2013 by former Ormat employees Tina Calilung andJamie Kell It alleged Ormat defrauded the federal government of $138 million in stimulus funds tocover an expansion at the Puna Geothermal Venture plant

An amended complaint led in May 2014 said Ormat ldquoengaged in a scheme to obtain federal grantmoney under (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) for geothermal energyprojects which did not qualify for payment and have misused and abused the federal funds theyhave received in order to falsely support geothermal energy projects that the government neverintended or would allowrdquo

The suit alleged PGVrsquos original 30-megawatt capacity plant was advertised as generating 30megawatts of electricity but in actuality was producing ldquono more than 17 MW and that thisinhibited production was causing Ormatrsquos revenues to decline by $1 million per monthrdquo

In an eort to stanch those losses the complaint alleged Ormat undertook an 8-megawattexpansion of the geothermal facility near Kapoho which it then misrepresented as a standaloneplant to qualify for the federal stimulus funds

The suit also claimed Ormat has sought to ldquoarticially inaterdquo the value of its energy assets in orderto ldquomaintain the appearance of viabilityrdquo of its geothermal ventures creating the appearance ldquoonpaperrdquo of prot

Calilung served as the companyrsquos asset manager and Kell was an administrator in the BusinessDevelopment Department

In the complaint Calilung said she helped draft the grant application for the Puna plantrsquosexpansion

Also covered in the settlement is an allegedly fraudulent grant for the North Brawley GeothermalPower Plant in Imperial County California

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The $787 billion federal stimulus program was designed to spur economic growth while creatingnew jobs and saving existing ones

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The settlement by the federal government with Ormat Technologies Inc Ormat Nevada Inc PunaGeothermal Venture II LP ORNI 18 LLC and Puna Geothermal Venture GP avoids the delaysuncertainty and expense of protracted litigation according to Daniel G Bogden the Nevada districtUS attorney He said the agreement is neither an admission of liability by the defendants nor aconcession by the government that its claims are not well-founded

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