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Construction and startup of the U.S. Geothermal Neal Hot Springs 22MW electric power facility in Vale, Oregon. US Geothermal would employ an innovative geothermal electricity production process which demonstrates an increase in power conversion efficiency up to 15 percent when compared to binary cycle systems currently available. The facility would use a non-toxic and non-flammable refrigerant in a closed-loop system with a gas scrubber to prevent the release of gas products to the atmosphere. These features would help to avoid air pollutants and anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases that would otherwise be produced to supply the energy through today's less efficient geothermal systems, The air cooled geothermal plant would have no direct emissions, and the indirect, and equivalent CO2 emissions from the Neal Hot Springs geothermal plant would be less than .04 pounds per kilowatt.

Construction and startup of the U.S. Geothermal Neal Hot Springs 22MW electric power facility in Vale, Oregon. US Geothermal would employ an innovative geothermal electricity production process which demonstrates an increase in power conversion efficiency up to 15 percent when compared to binary cycle systems currently available. The facility would use a non-toxic and non-flammable refrigerant in a closed-loop system with a gas scrubber to prevent the release of gas products to the atmosphere. These features would help to avoid air pollutants and anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases that would otherwise be produced to supply the energy through today's less efficient geothermal systems, The air cooled geothermal plant would have no direct emissions, and the indirect, and equivalent CO2 emissions from the Neal Hot Springs geothermal plant would be less than .04 pounds per kilowatt.