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Geothermal agreement for California

The Imperial Irrigation district (IID) has signed a ten-year power purchase agreement with Southern California public power authority (SCPPA) for 12MW of geothermal energy from the Heber-1 geothermal power plant in Heber, California. The agreement follows a ten-year agreement signed between the project’s owner, Ormat Technologies, and SCPPA to deliver electricity from Heber 1 beginning 16 th December 2015. The Ormat/SCPPA agreement calls for the supply of 46MW, of which the Los Angeles department of water and power will receive 34MW and IID will secure the remaining 12MW. With the receipt of 12MW power from Heber 1, IID will serve approximately 7,400

homes in its service territory and curb greenhousegas emissions by 70,500metric tons per year. The additional geothermal power increases IID's renewable resource mix to approximately 25 percent from the current 20.4 percent. It will also help IID to meet the California law that requires utilities to generate and retail 20 percent renewable electricity by 2013, increasing to 25 percent by 2016 and 33 percent by 2020. Interim energy manager at IID, Carl Stills, said that the agreement will help IID to diversify its energy portfolio by integrating renewableenergy, and that thecompany was “thrilled” to have contracted the supply of geothermal power from a local resource.

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