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Gradient signs EPC with Benham Constructors for Patua project
In Nevada, Gradient Resources has signed Benham Constructors LLC to an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. Benham is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC). The EPC calls for the delivery of a new 60 MW modular binary cycle power plant at the Patua project in northern Nevada. The Patua site, near [...]
NGP to purchase Iceland America project assets
In Canada, Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGP) has signed an agreement with Iceland America Energy, Inc. (IAE) that gives NGP the exclusive right to purchase a 100% ownership of IAE’s geothermal assets in Imperial Valley, California. The deal for the sites, which are the New Truckhaven, East Brawley and South Brawley projects, is for $4,150,000. [...]
DOE loan guarantee finalized for unique U.S. Geothermal project
In Idaho, the Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a $96.8 million Recovery Act supported loan guarantee for U.S. Geothermal, Inc.’s Neal Hot Springs, Oregon geothermal power project. The 23 MW project is expected to create some 150 construction jobs, over a dozen permanent jobs and many more supply chain jobs across several states. The project [...]
Nevada Geothermal updates ongoing projects
In Canada, Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. has updated the status of on-going work at its four projects; Blue Mountain, Crump Geyser, Pumpernickel and North Valley. North Valley is the former Black Warrior project. Blue Mountain, which the operating Faulkner 1 plant, now has 48 MW of output from distributing injection fluids into new deep wells [...]
Combining plant with heating, cooling plan draws heat from town
In Oregon, a plan to use hot water beneath the town of Lakeview to heat five schools and a hospital is drawing criticism because a second project has been added for power generation without separate consideration. The power generation plant would be near area’s Old Perpetual geyser, which already suffers from ground water fluctuations. The [...]
Ormat brings Jersey Valley on line, updates North Brawley
In Nevada, Ormat Technologies, Inc. announced that it successfully brought the 15 MW Jersey Valley geothermal power plant online. The company also announced that output from the North Brawley power plant in California has been increased from 25 MW to more than 30 MW as a result of expanded injection capacity that was recently brought [...]
Bankrupt co-op not giving up on GT project
In Alaska, papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court by Naknek Electric Association state that the group believes it can finish a rework of its troubled geothermal “in March or earlier”. Cost overruns and other problems with the project forced the power cooperative to file for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in September. The co-op got [...]
Raser breaks ground on first Lighting Dock production well
In Utah, Raser Technologies, Inc. said that it had started drilling its first production well at the 15 MW Lightning Dock project in New Mexico. Raser subsidiary Lightning Dock Geothermal recently signed an agreement with Evergreen-FE Lightning Dock, LLC to fund the development of the project and a term sheet with Ormat Nevada, Inc. to [...]
Raser starts drilling first Lightning Dock production well
In Utah, Raser Technologies, Inc. says it has begun drilling its first production well at the company’s second geothermal power project, Lightning Dock, NM. Mike Hayter, Raser’s project development director, said that the data collected at the site “indicates a promising geothermal resource.” The data comes from several months of survey data collected from [...]
Ram to begin funding search
In Nevada, a report from Green Investing states that Ram Power will begin talks with banks to finance the construction of a project in the Geysers, which is to go online in California over the next two years. The 30 MW project is expected to cost roughly $200 million to develop. The reports adds that [...]
