After about a decade of grinding its way through the federal permitting process, Ormat, a geothermal company, was building a new power plant in Dixie Valley to produce renewable energy.

Ormat Technologies Inc., is the biggest geothermal power company in the nation. It wants to build a plant near Dixie Valley springs, which is northeast of Fallon. Geothermal plants are an ...

In Nevada, Ormat completed a 6MW upgrade to the Dixie Valley power plant, which allows the Company to maximize its favorable long-term power purchase agreement. The upgrade involved the ...

So a court, not activists, will have the final say on whether the Ormat plant will be built. For Gordon, the cost of Ormat’s Dixie Valley plant is too high. “If we lose a population of Western ...

RENO — In a reversal that marks a significant victory for conservationists, federal officials have decided to “revisit” the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a ...

(AP) — A tiny Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal power project has officially ... “This ruling makes final the listing of the Dixie Valley toad, ” the U.S. Fish ...

The Ormat project in Dixie Valley, Nev., was stalled over concerns ... which geothermal water never leaves the ground. Binary power plants create energy through a heat exchanger “with no ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A rare toad caught in the middle of a plan to develop geothermal energy in Nevada’s Churchill County could get a protected home from the federal government. The U.S. Fish ...