Lease your land for solar in Imperial County, California
Imperial County has the highest solar resource in California — plus growing lithium brine extraction opportunities.
Lease Imperial County, California land for solar (and lithium)
Imperial County has the highest solar resource in California — plus growing lithium brine extraction opportunities.
Imperial County in southeastern California has the strongest solar resource in California (6.8+ kWh/m²/day) and one of the most active utility-scale solar markets in the state. The county also sits over the Salton Sea geothermal brine field, which contains world-class lithium resources now being commercialized.
Imperial County solar economics in 2026
- Active solar corridors: $1,200-$2,000 per acre per year (highest in California)
- Outright sale prices: $30,000-$70,000 per acre
A 300-acre Imperial parcel at $1,600/ac/yr generates $480k+/yr.
Imperial Irrigation District (IID) — unique utility dynamics
IID is a municipal utility (not a CAISO IOU), with its own grid and procurement process. Solar developers selling into IID work directly with IID Power Department. Some Imperial solar projects sell into CAISO via IID's interconnect.
Lithium opportunity layered on solar
Salton Sea brine contains commercially significant lithium concentrations. Companies including Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE Renewables), Controlled Thermal Resources, EnergySource Minerals, and Hell's Kitchen are actively developing lithium extraction.
If your Imperial parcel sits over the brine field, you may have both surface lease opportunity (solar) and subsurface lease opportunity (lithium royalty). These can stack since solar uses the surface and lithium extraction is subsurface.
Active Imperial solar developers
- 8minute Solar Energy
- Recurrent Energy
- First Solar
- Lightsource bp
- Sempra Infrastructure
Next step
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Providers active in California for solar
AES Corporation's renewable arm. Active developer of utility-scale solar and wind across the US.
Charlottesville-based wind and solar developer with 30+ GW pipeline.
National solar developer focused on utility-scale and community solar projects.
EDF's North American renewables arm. Develops, owns, and operates utility-scale wind/solar.
Privately held global renewables developer. Lease and acquire wind/solar sites at scale.
Marketplace platform connecting landowners with energy buyers across solar, wind, oil & gas, and data centers.
Global utility-scale solar developer; long-term ground leases on 100+ acre parcels.
World's largest generator of wind and solar power. Active landowner lease program across the wind belt.
Independent power producer with 12+ GW solar pipeline. Active across the Sun Belt.
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