Newly amended legislation urges California power
regulators to encourage the use of geothermal power to help meet the state’s
renewable energy targets, with a long-term goal of generating money to repair
the Salton Sea.
The ailing desert lake, which straddles Riverside and
Imperial counties, has steadily shrunk and will lose its largest remaining
supply of water in four years. Yet virtually nothing has happened on the $8.9
billion restoration plan unveiled in 2007 to solve the sea’s environmental
problems.
