Overview
- Zanskar reported that drilling in July and August confirmed a permeable reservoir at roughly 2,700 feet with temperatures near 250°F at the Big Blind site.
- The company holds a federal lease for the prospect and still needs permits, grid interconnection and financing before any power plant can proceed.
- Zanskar characterizes Big Blind as the first blind geothermal system in the United States confirmed as a commercial prospect in more than 30 years.
- The exploration workflow uses AI trained on known hot spots and simulations, ingesting geological, satellite and fault data before targeted field surveys and confirmation drilling.
- Company leaders and researchers say blind systems could add far more capacity than older estimates and offer a different path than engineered geothermal, though Big Blind’s ultimate size requires further testing.