Dixie Valley EGS

Ormat Technologies · Dixie Valley, Churchill County, NV · Nevada DEVELOPER HEALTHHEALTHY

Ormat's first planned commercial enhanced geothermal project: an engineered well pair beside its existing Dixie Valley hydrothermal field, built with SLB and the University of Utah.

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Power

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Geothermal · Demonstration

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energy capacity

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not announced

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closed or awarded

Capital pending

$25M

conditional or under review

How it works

Enhanced (EGS)

Where rock is hot but dry, drill down and then sideways, crack the rock open between two wells, pump water down one and bring it up hot through the other. Borrowed from oil-and-gas drilling, so it can work in many more places.

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Grant $25M

Grant · US Department of Energy (EGS field tests)Up to $25M, subject to award negotiationsANNOUNCED · 2026-09-24 · finviz.com$25M

Milestones

Sep 24, 2026Selected for up to $25M of DOE EGS field-test funding

Grid, permits and build

Who's building it: SLB and the University of Utah's Energy & Geoscience Institute

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Dixie Valley EGS

Enhanced (EGS)

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Grid, permits and build

Dixie Valley EGS

Enhanced (EGS)

Capital stack

Milestones

Grid, permits and build

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