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November 5, 2009
U.S. Geothermal makes headway on power plant project
BOISE, Idaho
U.S. Geothermal Inc, a renewable energy company, has received a conditional use permit for construction of a proposed 22 megawatt power plant at Neal Hot Springs in eastern Oregon.
“This is a key project milestone,” said Daniel Kunz, U.S. Geothermal’s president and CEO.
The $106 million project is planned to be online by the fourth quarter of 2011.
U.S. Geothermal, a renewable energy development company with operating geothermal power plants at Raft River, Idaho and San Emidio, Nevada, is proceeding with a temperature gradient drilling program and has recently completed development drilling of a second full scale production well at Neal Hot Springs toward development of its third operating geothermal power plant.
-DCN News Services
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