U.S. Geothermal gets stimulus funding for Nevada power project 
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Published: October 30,2009
Time posted: 1:00 am
Boise-based renewable energy developer U.S. Geothermal is set to receive $3.77 million in federal stimulus money, the company announced Oct. 30.
Awarded under the Department of Energy’s Innovative Exploration and Drilling Projects program, the funds will go toward exploration and development of U.S. Geothermal’s San Emidio project in Nevada.
The company stated in a release that it will use the funding to locate new drilling targets with a combination of advanced structural modeling and seismic and satellite imagery. U.S. Geothermal reports the San Emidio project has a net capacity of 3.6 megawatts, but estimates that could be boosted to 44MWs.
“This award will assist in increasing per-well productivity and thereby reducing the number of production wells required to develop a geothermal resource,” said William Teplow, vice president of Exploration for U.S. Geothermal.
“I expect that advanced exploration techniques developed with this DOE funding will provide powerful new tools for full development of all five of our geothermal properties,” he noted.
U.S. Geothermal operates another project at Raft River, Idaho, and recently completed development drilling of a second production well at Neal Hot Springs in eastern Oregon. The Raft River project, located about 200 miles southeast of Boise, generates about 13MWs and is Idaho’s first commercial scale geothermal power plant.
Most recently, University of Utah scientists teamed up with U.S. Geothermal and a Colorado seismic monitoring firm to boost energy production at the Raft River project.
The $10.2 million study, led by the university’s Energy & Geoscience Institute, would test the feasibility of injecting one of U.S. Geothermal’s dry wells with both cool and pressurized water to crack hot underground rocks and open new passageways to geothermal resources.
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