BLM Lease Auction Signals New Trend

摘要

A competitive auction of lease parcels for geothermal-energy resources on federal public lands in Nevada and California held in Reno on August 14 brought $20 million in bids, including the highest per-acre bid in history. These results of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) second competitive sale of geothermal leases signal significant expansion of this renewable, low-emission source of energy. "We were extremely pleased with the unexpectedly high interest in our first competitive sale, in June, for lands in Idaho and Utah," said BLM deputy director Henri Bisson, "and the success of today's sale is a harbinger of the continued rising interest in developing the nation's considerable geothermal-energy resources, most of which are on public lands."