(AP-Times of Israel) Jae C. Hong and Sophia Yan - Authorities were racing Tuesday to close off production wells at a geothermal plant threatened by a lava flow from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. The Puna Geothermal Venture plant, owned by Israel's Ormat Technologies, produces 1/4 of Big Island's energy, harnessing heat and steam from the earth's core to spin turbines to generate power.
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