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Imperial Irrigation District to Buy Electricity from Heber I Geothermal Plant (Imperial Valley Press)

Power in the Imperial Irrigation District, in the Imperial Valley , Southern California, is likely to come partly from a local geothermal plant in the near future, increasing IID’s renewable energy portfolio by as much as 3 percent.

IID Board of Directors could approve today a power sales agreement with Southern California Public Power Authority to get geothermal energy from the Ormat Heber 1 power plant.

If approved by the board, the district would receive about 15 MWe of geothermal power from December 2015 to December 2018, a report to the board notes, and 10 MWe from January 2019 to December 2025.

The agreement worth about $7.4 million will increase IID’s renewable energy portfolio as California requires electric utilities to obtain 33 percent of their power supplies from renewable wind, solar or geothermal sources.