BLM sale lists 17 Lincoln County geothermal parcels
BLM’s September 15 amendment revises the October geothermal sale acreage. Applying its corrections gives 55,940.48 acres across the 17 Lincoln County parcels previously identified.
The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled an online competitive geothermal lease sale for October 20, 2026. Its September 15 Amendment 2 lists 83 parcels totaling 265,154.610 acres statewide, replacing the earlier 265,690.76-acre total.
Lincoln County Social’s earlier review of the August 27 amended parcel list identified 17 Lincoln County parcels. Applying Amendment 2’s Lincoln County acreage corrections to that review produces a revised total of 55,940.48 acres, down from 56,063.28 acres. This is an amendment-based recalculation, not a new independent survey or full parcel recount.
The 17 parcel IDs remain NV-2026-10-7055, 2328, 2327, 7054, 2323, 2321, 7053, 2320, 7057, 7058, 2335, 2333, 2334, 2332, 7056, 2329 and 2326. Amendment 2 reduces parcel 2328 by 120 acres and changes parcel 2326 by a net 2.80 acres. It also corrects parcel 2332’s legal description without changing its listed 3,827.62 acres.
The earlier parcel list assigns a 1.75% royalty rate to each of those Lincoln County parcels, with BLM Nevada lease notices and stipulations covering threatened and endangered species, cultural resources, the Mineral Leasing Act and raptor nest sites. Amendment 1 corrected an omitted word in some legal descriptions; Amendment 2 makes additional description and acreage corrections. Readers should use the sale package and all amendments together.
BLM’s announcement says 50% of bids, rental receipts and subsequent royalties from leased parcels go to Nevada, 25% to the county where a lease is located and 25% to the U.S. Treasury. No Lincoln County revenue estimate is available because auction results and future rental or royalty receipts are not yet known.
A lease sale is not approval to build a geothermal project. BLM says operators must submit site-specific proposals for additional environmental review before exploration or development involving surface disturbance can proceed, and parcels may be withdrawn before the sale.
Read Amendment 2, issued September 15 · Check BLM’s Nevada geothermal sale documents · Read the original sale notice