Exhibit 24
                       POWER OF ATTORNEY


      The  undersigned,  members of the Board  of  Directors  and
Officers   of   SALTON  SEA  FUNDING  CORPORATION,   a   Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), and the following companies:


               Salton Sea Brine Processing, L.P.
               Salton Sea Power Generation, L.P.
               Fish Lake Power Company
               Vulcan Power Company
               CalEnergy Operating Company
               Salton Sea Royalty Company
               BN Geothermal Inc.
               San Felipe Energy Company
               Conejo Energy Company
               Niguel Energy Company
               Vulcan/BN Geothermal Power Company
               Leathers, L.P.
               Del Ranch, L.P.
               Elmore, L.P.

hereby constitute and appoint Steven A. McArthur as his true  and
lawful   attorney-in-fact  and  agent,   with   full   power   of
substitution and resubstitution, for and in his stead, in any and
all  capacities,  to sign on his behalf the Company's  Form  10-K
Annual Report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1996 and to
execute  any  amendments thereto and to file the same,  with  all
exhibits   thereto,  and  all  other  documents   in   connection
therewith,  with  the  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  and
applicable stock exchanges, with the full power and authority  to
do  and  perform  each  and  every act  and  thing  necessary  or
advisable to all intents and purposes as he might or could do  in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-
fact and agent or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully  do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated as of March 26, 1997.



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DAVID L. SOKOL                       THOMAS R. MASON


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JOHN G. SYLVIA                       GREGORY E. ABEL