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The Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has approved the 2-GW Fervo Cape Geothermal Power Project in Beaver County, Utah. In addition, the Bureau of Land Management said it is proposing a new categorical exclusion from certain National Environmental Policy Act requirements to accelerate the discovery of geothermal resources.
The project, developed by Fervo Energy, will cover around 631 acres — 148 of those on public lands, Interior said in a release. Fervo Energy announced in September that it had achieved “record-breaking reservoir performance” at its Cape Station project in southwestern Utah, using advanced drilling techniques adopted from the fracking industry, and resulting in well tests that established the project as the most productive enhanced geothermal generating station in history.
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