The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Nevada geothermal lease auction generated $4.8 million, covering roughly 187,000 acres.

Utility Dive reports that an Interior Department geothermal lease sale on federal land in Nevada generated $4.8 million. The auction covered approximately 187,000 acres.

The proceeds per acre were lower than those from a comparable Nevada sale in 2025, according to the article description. The supplied excerpt does not include either auction’s precise per-acre result or the earlier sale’s total proceeds.

Leases for two parcels sold in the auction overlap the site of a proposed NextEra solar farm. The transaction concerns land leases, not commissioned geothermal generation; no generating-capacity figure, construction schedule, or data-center supply agreement is provided.