Thursday, August 20, 2026

BLM’s Geothermal Lease Sale in Oregon was a success!

Happy Thursday!

We try to keep up with all the energy related sales the U.S. Government has throughout the year.  Well, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, recently had a sale we don’t normally see, and it was for geothermal leases in Oregon.  Let’s see what happened during this sale. 

Did anyone happen to read EnergyTech’s Transition Newsletter on August 19, 2026, their article titled, “Oregan Geothermal Federal Lease Bid Hits $1M to Drill in the Mount Hood National Forest”?  In the article, it speaks on how the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had a Geothermal Lease Sale last week for Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon and the results were announced.   The BLM approved two of the twenty-one bids they received for the geothermal lease sale with the accepted bids being worth over $1.1 million and covering 9,600 acres of the national forest.   The article goes on to speak of the Department of Energy’s funding opportunities for over $170 million for advancing geothermal energy (See our Blog in late February 2026, for details).   We wish the winning bidders luck advancing geothermal energy in the region! If you would like to read more of the article from EnergyTech, please click the link: Oregon Geothermal Federal Lease Bid Hits $1M to Drill in the Mount Hood National Forest | Energy Tech.

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