Geothermal home heating facilities, Green Valley Estates, Fernley, Nevada

Technical Report · Wed Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6869904· OSTI ID:6869904

A housing development to be located at Fernley, Nevada, about thirty miles east of Reno, is in an area of known geothermal water. The practicality of heating these homes with this water, as an alternative to heating with natural gas, has been investigated. A preliminary engineering design of a geothermal system was developed. This design permitted capital and operating cost to be estimated and a financial evaluation to be made. Two cases were investigated. The Base Case provides facilities for heating a tract of 371 houses. The Alternate Case adds another tract of 371 for a total of 742 houses. Geothermal water is to be provided by two wells and the used water reinjected into a third well. The Base Case has a rate of return on capital investment of 13.0 percent before taxes. The Alternate Case has a rate of return of 16.5 percent before taxes. The Alternate Case has a more favorable return due primarily to the assumption that each well has the capacity to produce 800 gpm of geothermal water. This is enough to provide for the additional 371 houses in the Alternate Case without an additional well. (MHR)

• Research Organization: Oregon Inst. of Tech., Klamath Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC79-79BP15325
• OSTI ID: 6869904
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP/15325-T4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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