Will the hells kitchen geothermal plan require a lot of ios lots
Executive summary
The reporting provided does not use the term “ios lots,” so it is impossible on the evidence here to state definitively whether the Hell’s Kitchen project will “require a lot of ios lots”; however, available documents and reporting show the project will occupy and alter thousands of acres, build significant energy and industrial infrastructure, and add new grid interconnection hardware—facts that suggest meaningful land and grid‑connection footprint even if the precise phrase “ios lots” is absent from the record [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. What the question probably means — parsing “ios lots” and the limits of the record
The sources never define or use the phrase “ios lots,” so the first necessary conclusion is that the public record provided cannot confirm what “ios lots” are or whether the project requires many of them [2] [5]. A reasonable reading is that the question asks whether Hell’s Kitchen requires many industrial/operations sites, lots for equipment, or interconnection points to utility infrastructure; on that interpretion, the project documentation and press reporting do describe large land holdings, multiple facilities, and generation and transmission structures that imply multiple operational lots or footprints [1] [3] [6].
2. The on‑the‑ground land footprint: thousands of acres and phased buildout
Imperial Irrigation District negotiations and leases with Hell’s Kitchen Geothermal/Controlled Thermal Resources and county approvals reference parcels totaling in the low thousands of acres—agreements contemplated nearly 1,880 acres from an earlier lease and possible transfers covering about 3,144.76 acres, indicating the project’s physical footprint is large and multi‑parcel rather than a single compact site [1]. County planning approvals and project descriptions treat multiple discrete facilities—power plant, direct lithium extraction unit, mitigation features and water and drainage work—consistent with multiple operational lots within that acreage [3] [2].
3. Infrastructure and facilities that imply multiple operational lots
Project descriptions and reporting list distinct physical infrastructure: a geothermal power plant (initially ~49.9 MW thermal / Stage‑1 buildout), a direct lithium extraction (DLE) plant, cooling towers and substantial gen‑tie transmission structures (e.g., cooling towers up to 40 feet and 230‑kV gen‑tie structures up to 120 feet), and a proposed staged scale‑up toward hundreds of megawatts and large lithium production capacities [3] federal-permitting-program/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[7] [8]. Those separate pieces—wells and well pads, brine conditioning/DLE facilities, power station, and transmission corridors—would typically occupy distinct lots or parcels for operations, safety setbacks and permitting, implying a need for multiple industrial lots on site [6] [3].
4. Permitting, environmental mitigation and land‑use constraints that increase footprint complexity
The project has drawn federal and local scrutiny—FAST‑41 coverage for federal permitting signals a major multi‑agency process for a project that combines power and mineral extraction [9] [8], while an EPA settlement over dredging and ditching that harmed wetlands shows additional mitigation and possibly adjusted site footprints were required after environmental violations [10]. County planning commission approvals involved eight separate resolutions tied to both geothermal and lithium facilities—water supply assessments, final EIR and mitigation monitoring—indicating regulatory layering that typically fragments and defines multiple lots and uses on a project site [3] [2].
5. Scale projections point toward many operational components but not the phrase “ios lots”
Industry and media profiles project large eventual capacity—some reporting cites multi‑phase buildouts up to hundreds of megawatts or 1,100 MW across phases and tens of thousands of metric tons of lithium annually—proposals of that scale necessitate many discrete operational areas, equipment yards and grid interconnections [4] [7]. Still, none of the supplied documents label those areas “ios lots,” so the conclusion is conditional: the project will require multiple lots, parcels and infrastructure elements given its acreage, facilities and transmission needs, but the exact meaning of “ios lots” and whether the project “requires a lot of ios lots” cannot be confirmed from the sources provided [1] [3] [6].