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Salt Wells

Other power plant · CHURCHILL County, Nevada

Nameplate capacity
24 MW
Rank in Nevada
#76
of 117 plants
In service since
2009
March 2009

Details

Primary fuel
Other
Technology
Geothermal
Operator
Ormat Salt Wells LLC
County
CHURCHILL County
Generating units
2
Share of state capacity
0.12%
Rank among other plants in Nevada
#18 of 29
EIA plant code
57213

Generating units

Individual generating units at Salt Wells
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
101Geothermal12 MW10 MW2009Operating
201Geothermal12 MW10 MW2009Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 24 MW solar plant and a 24 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Nevada power plants · What Nevada actually generates