USA, Nevada: Play Fairway Analysis Discovers New Geothermal Resources

Nevada in more hot water: Geothermal industry gets boost with discoveries of ‘blind’ systems (University of Nevada)

College of Science team is successful with new exploration methods for renewable energy

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Director
Jim Faulds gives a field lecture about geothermal resources.
GRC Fieldtrip 2018.

Geothermal power potential in Nevada is heating up – with two successful discoveries in the Great Basin by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology using a previously untried method for finding unknown, hidden geothermal resources.

Both discovered systems are blind – meaning there are no surface indications of hot water – and there had been no exploration previously in one of these areas and only minor previous exploration in the other. Geologists at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the University of Nevada, Reno, used a number of other surface and subsurface clues in their methodology developed as part of their Department of Energy funded Play Fairway project that has been underway since 2014.

Now that these blind geothermal systems have been discovered, it’s up to the geothermal industry to conduct additional drilling for possible development of a geothermal power plant.

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