Nevada's geothermal prospects heat up

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With an installed capacity of a little more than 400 megawatts, Nevada's ability to take geothermal heat and turn it into electricity is second in the U.S. only to California. In fact, if Nevada was a country, it would be the ninth-largest producer of geothermal energy in the world, just behind Japan, according to the Geothermal Energy Association.
Now, the Silver State is poised to significantly increase its 13 percent share of total U.S. geothermal capacity -- perhaps even overtake California as the nation's top geothermal energy producer.
With 86 projects in the works that could potentially boost capacity anywhere from an extra 2,120 megawatts to 3,686 megawatts, Nevada now is No. 1 in the nation for geothermal capacity under development.
To put that in context, total U.S. capacity is 3,087 megawatts.
"Nevada is a state where so much has been happening," said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Geothermal Energy Association. "Not only is the state doing well in terms of new projects under development, but utilities in Nevada have also learned to work with geothermal. They have gained a lot of experience in the field, including how to work collaboratively with geothermal development."

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