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Geothermal lease sale on federal land in Nevada nets $4.8M

An Interior Department auction for roughly 187,000 acres generated less per acre than a similar sale in the same state in 2025. The U.S.

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An Interior Department auction for roughly 187,000 acres generated less per acre than a similar sale in the same state in 2025. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold geothermal leases on 60 parcels of federal land in Nevada on Tuesday, netting nearly $4.83 million for 186,641 acres. The sale included two parcels that overlap the site for NextEra Energy’s proposed 1-GW Sawtooth Energy Center solar project.

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