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Utahs Geothermal Power Portfolio (Utah Policy.com)

Geothermal Plants in Utah
(Courtesy Think GeoEnergy)

The potential for geothermal in the state was first documented by the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition in the late 1700s, when Father Escalante traveled through present-day Beaver County. The first geothermal plant in Utah, Blundell Plant 1, is a 34 MWe facility is owned by Rocky Mountain Power. That project earned the U.S. Department of Energy's innovation award in 1984 for being the first commercially-produced geothermal power plant outside of California. In 2007, Rocky Mountain Power brought Blundell 2 online. It is an 11 MWe binary bottoming-cycle unit.

In recent years, two more geothermal facilities have come online through the cooperation of public and private entities. Thermo No. 1, located near Milford and owned by Cyrq Energy, is an operating binary geothermal power plant located on 1,120 acres of property leased from School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) and a private property owner. The facility began commercial operations in 2009 and is a 10.3 MWe rated, zero-emissions, water cooled geothermal power plant. The power generated at Thermo No. 1 is sold to the City of Anaheim. Thermo No. 1 employs nine full-time employees, including seven local residents.

Another geothermal plant, located at Cove Fort, is owned by Enel Green Power North America (EGP-NA). The site overlaps into Beaver and Millard Counties. The installed capacity of the new binary cycle geothermal power plant in Cove Fort is 25 MWe.

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