Clean energy:

By Katie Ann McCarver ( contact )

Monday, November 17, 2025 - 2 a.m.

Zanskar, a geothermal energy firm that uses artificial intelligence to identify and tap underground heat sources, announced it has drilled a successful geothermal well at a site in Humboldt County in Northern Nevada.

Aubry DeReuil, head of geoscience at Zanskar who is responsible for developing the company’s portfolio of subsurface projects nationwide, said she believed the Pumpernickel well was the first of what would be many such discoveries by the company in Nevada.

“We have really huge growth goals,” DeReuil said. “And resources in Nevada are at the heart of that. We found one, but that’s not going to stop us from finding more.”

DeReuil explained that geothermal refers to heat from the Earth, so ge

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