@GeoMiss Of particular note and flying under the radar, is the California Energy Commission's recent meeting in Imperial County to develop a California Lithium Recovery Initiative Policy. Last Wednesdays meeting was virtually a who's who of California stakeholders that support legislative and policy efforts to extract minerals from geothermal brines within California. MGX team lead by Randy Keller, including Preston McEachern, Anna Wall, and Senator Richard Polanco were able to brief all in attendance of MGX's development and identify barriers to realization of the technology.
Entire attendance list below: California Lithium Recovery Initiative May 22, 2019 – 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Affiliation Name§ Berkshire Hathaway Energy Jonathan Weisgall BHE Renewables Eric Besseling Bloomberg NEG Logan Goldie-Scot Bloomberg NEG Rob Glen Bureau of Land Management Mark Chatterton CA Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources Charlene Wardlow CA State Lands Commission Greg Pelka California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild California Energy Commission Commissioner Karen Douglas California Energy Commission Lindsay Buckley California Energy Commission Natalie Lee California Energy Commission Michael Sokol California Energy Commission Elisabeth de Jong California Energy Commission Garry Maurath Capstone Headwaters Anna Wall Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies V. John White CNRA Salton Sea Policy Bruce Wilcox Controlled Thermal Resources Jim Turner Controlled Thermal Resources Rod Colwell Edison International Caroline Choi Energy Source Minerals Derek Benson Former California State Senator Richard Polanco General Electric Joseph Heinzmann Geothermal Resources Council Will Petitt Geothermal Solutions Will Osborn
GeothermEx§ James Lovekin Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Tyson Eckerle IBEW Local 569 Micah Mitrosky Imperial County Andy Horne Imperial County Planning Jim Minnick Imperial Irrigation District Henry Martinez Lawrence Livermore National Lab AJ Simon Lithium Selective Technologies, Inc. Tom Currin Marniship Development Interest LLC Derek Smith MGX Minerals, Inc. Randy Keller National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Dr. David Ginley National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Parthiv Kurup National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) Kate Young New Energy Nexus Danny Kennedy New Energy Nexus Ken Alston New Roc Energy Partners II, LLC Norman Birmingham Office of Assembly member Eduardo Garcia Miguel Romero
PurLucid§ Dr. Preston McEachern Salton Sea Authority Phil Rosentrater Sandia National Laboratories Patrick Sullivan Senior Field Representative, Office of Juan Vargas Tomas Oliva SRI International Susanna Ventura U.S. Department of Energy Josh Mengers UC Riverside Wilfred Elders
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