Utility Dive: The Salton Sea, located in southeast California, is the largest inland body of water in the state and a geothermal resource, currently hosting 11 geothermal plants. Regulators in California have been eyeing the potential of the region to be a 'Lithium Valley' for a while now; in May, the California Energy Commission (CEC) awarded around $10 million in grants for three geothermal-related projects, in part because of the potential to boost the state's emerging lithium recovery sector. Lithium deposits in the Imperial Valley could result in annual revenues of as much as $860 million, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the CEC noted at the time.
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