Blue Mountain Faulkner 1 Geothermal Power Plant is a geothermal power plant located in

Humboldt County, Nevada Humboldt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 17,285. It is a largely rural county that is sparsely populated with the only major city being Winnemucca which has a population of 8,431. Humb ...

, United States. It is owned and operated by Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. Produced electricity is sold to

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through a 120-kV transmission line to the transmission grid connection at Mill City, Nevada. The plant was completed in October 2009. It has an installed capacity of . As of November 2010, the plant operated at a net output of . It is a binary cycle geothermal plant, which uses a closed-loop heat exchange system. In this system hot geothermal water with an average temperature of heats a secondary fluid, isobutane, which is vaporized and used to run a

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. The geothermal water is supplied by five production wells and injected by six injection wells. There is a program to add three new production wells. The depth of wells is . The technology was supplied by

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. The well drilling contractors were ThermaSource and Ensign. The piping contractor was JFMPE and the reservoir engineering was handled by GeoThermEx Inc. The plant cost US$180 million, of which $57.9 million was funded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

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