内政部本周拍卖Nevada 83宗地热租约约26.6万英亩 多宗地块与规划中的太阳能项目用地重叠
据路透社10月19日报道，美国内政部（U.S. Department of the Interior）下属土地管理局（Bureau of Land Management, BLM）定于10月20日（周二）拍卖 Nevada 州83宗地热租约地块，总面积约265,691英亩，分布在该州10个县；土地管理局9月修订后面积约为265,155英亩。拍卖收入按规定分配：50%归 Nevada 州、25%归地块所在县、25%归美国财政部；地热租约初始期限为10年，可因勘探、开发或生产活动延续。土地管理局称，Nevada 目前有28座在联邦土地上运行或已获授权的地热电厂，获授权装机容量超过950兆瓦。
据土地管理局的拍卖文件与今年8月公布的地图，其中6宗地热地块与4个规划中的大型太阳能项目重叠。全球最大的风能与太阳能发电企业 NextEra Energy 今年早些时候要求土地管理局「移除、推迟或重新划定」3宗地块，称重叠部分约6,000英亩、约占其规划中位于 Nye County 的1,000兆瓦 Sawtooth Energy Center 用地的60%，可能与该公司尚在申请中的项目「形成可预见的冲突」。土地管理局8月拒绝了这一请求，表示联邦土地实行多用途管理；该局同时说明，NextEra 必须与潜在承租方协作、调整自身作业以避免用地冲突，若 NextEra 的项目先获批准，则其享有「优先权」，地热开发须避开对其项目的影响。一宗与 Sawtooth 项目完全重叠的地块已不再出现在拍卖网站上。
其他受影响的太阳能项目还包括：总部位于 Dallas 的 Leeward Renewable Energy 表示，一宗地热地块与其拟建于 Esmeralda County 的 Lone Mountain 太阳能项目重叠约735英亩；Invenergy 的300兆瓦 Nivloc 项目与 Arevia Power 的1,500兆瓦 Gold Dust 项目同样与拟议地热地块重叠。上述项目原属「Esmeralda 7」七座太阳能电厂综合体（占地约62,000英亩），土地管理局已于2025年取消该综合体的环境评审，但表示各项目可单独重新申请联邦批准。特朗普政府将可全天候发电的地热能列为推广方向，同时在联邦审批加速安排中大体排除了风能与太阳能项目。（GSM 据路透社报道）
拍卖已于10月20日上午10时（美东时间）通过 Efficient Markets 在线平台开拍，起拍价为联邦最低标准每英亩2美元。今年地热租约价格屡创纪录：8月犹他州一场拍卖的中标平均价达到每英亩339美元，创下历史纪录；2025年之前的纪录仅为每英亩63美元，内华达州去年一场拍卖的平均成交价为每英亩32美元。这是2026年联邦政府举行的六场能源租约拍卖中的第四场，也是今年内华达州的第一场；特朗普政府将地热视为可满足超级智能扩张带来的电力需求的稳定电源，内华达州因 Ormat、Fervo 等企业的布局成为开发最活跃的州之一。
Interior to Auction 83 Nevada Geothermal Leases Covering About 265,691 Acres, Overlapping Planned Solar Projects
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to auction 83 geothermal lease parcels in Nevada on Tuesday, October 20, totaling about 265,691 acres across 10 counties, according to federal documents reported by Reuters on October 19; a September BLM amendment put the revised acreage at about 265,155. Half of the bid, rent and royalty revenue from the sale will go to Nevada, a quarter to the county where each lease sits and a quarter to the U.S. Treasury. Geothermal leases run for an initial 10 years and can be extended for exploration, development or production. BLM says Nevada has 28 geothermal plants operating or authorized on land with a federal interest, with more than 950 megawatts of authorized capacity.
Maps BLM published in August show six proposed geothermal parcels overlapping four major planned solar developments. NextEra Energy, the world's largest owner of solar and wind generation, asked the agency earlier this year to remove, defer or reconfigure three parcels, saying the overlap covers roughly 6,000 acres, or about 60 percent, of its planned 1,000-megawatt Sawtooth Energy Center in Nye County, and could create a foreseeable conflict with its pending application. BLM declined the request in August, saying federal lands are managed for multiple uses; the agency said NextEra must collaborate with any potential lessee and adjust its operations to avoid land-use conflicts, and that if NextEra's project is approved first it would hold the senior right, with geothermal development required to avoid impacts on it. One parcel overlapping the Sawtooth site entirely no longer appears on the auction website.
Dallas-based Leeward Renewable Energy said a geothermal parcel overlaps about 735 acres of its proposed Lone Mountain solar project in Esmeralda County, and Invenergy's 300-megawatt Nivloc project and Arevia Power's 1,500-megawatt Gold Dust project also overlap proposed geothermal parcels, according to the sale documents. Those projects were part of the Esmeralda 7 complex, seven proposed solar farms on 62,000 acres whose environmental review BLM canceled in 2025, while noting the projects may reapply individually. The Trump administration has promoted geothermal energy as an always-on power source while largely excluding wind and solar from its accelerated federal permitting effort. (GSM, via Reuters)
The sale opened at 10 a.m. Eastern on October 20 on the Efficient Markets online platform, with bidding starting at the federal minimum of $2 an acre. Geothermal lease prices have soared to records this year: the average winning price at a Utah sale in August hit a record $339 an acre, compared with a pre-2025 record of just $63 an acre, and a Nevada sale a year ago averaged $32 an acre. It is the fourth of six federal lease sales in 2026 and the first this year in Nevada, one of the most active geothermal states thanks to companies including Ormat and Fervo. The Trump administration has promoted geothermal as an always-on power source that can help meet electricity demand driven by the expansion of super intelligence.
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