Entries for 'UHERO'

...record-high visitor numbers, record-low unemployment, and ongoing—if unimpressive—income gains....

...statistically significant upward adjustments on average are observed across utilities that experienced decoupling....

“The vast majority of those businesses impacted by the City’s food waste recycling ordinance are continuing to use local piggeries to recycle their food waste.”

...Following two years of decline, the pace of building in Hawaii has stabilized. The value of construction permits is posting healthy gains across all sub-sectors this year....

...Global tourism continues to power forward, and there remains a healthy pipeline of construction work. And even with the recent labor market weakness, Hawaii continues to enjoy its lowest unemployment in many years....

...This study asks the question, how valuable is residential real-time pricing (RTP) in comparison to time-of-use (TOU) rates to absorb increasing sources of intermittent renewable energy?....

...the variability of solar and wind power makes the system-wide costs grow considerably as their share of the power mix rises....

...HTA CEO George Szegeti said “In CY2017 the convention center turned a net operating profit of $1.1 million, marking its second consecutive year of profitability.” This is surprising news, indeed....

...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....

...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....

... Dynamic pricing = 'Voluntary' rolling blackouts or brownouts.  You agree to use at certain hours and not at others ....

...Tourism has surged again in the first part of 2018, extending one of the longest periods of sustained visitor growth. Construction, while volatile month to month, also remains on a high plateau....

...Even though most respondents still think tourism brings more benefits than costs to our state, the percent of those who think otherwise has been rising for some time....

...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....

...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....

...global warming is just an excuse for tax hikes and rate hikes....

...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....

...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....

...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....

...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....

Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....

...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....

...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....

...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....

With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....

"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....

Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....

Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....

...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....

Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....

...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....

...presentation for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 2016 summit, "Still Houseless in Honolulu."....

...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....

...signs of a slowdown ahead....

...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....

This paper examines Hawaii’s recent effort at developing a model to allocate the state’s transient accommodation tax....

...variable pricing of electricity, both wholesale and retail, can lower the cost of intermittent renewables....

Innovation is the key to economic growth and prosperity....

"...innovation-oriented projects that improve the living standards of Hawaii residents...." LOL!

...three sectors that are key to future sustainability in Hawai‘i - energy, agriculture and natural resource management....

...Honolulu’s inflation-adjusted land and housing prices have been highly volatile in the medium term since the 1960s....

Under the CPP, states have been given the choice of meeting either a rate- or mass-based goal for their existing fleet of power plants....

Next year will see some easing of visitor growth....

At a time of dwindling inventory and rising prices, housing affordability has once again become a hot topic in Hawaii....

Take, for example, public discussion surrounding the potential merger of HECO and NextEra....

...PV already installed on a home is worth about $4,000 more than the median value of a PV permit....

Tourism is pushing toward new records, and the construction upswing is building in strength....

Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....

Tourism will see additional healthy gains on the Neighbor Islands for the next two years, before rising occupancy and costs begin to bring down growth rates, something that has already occurred on Oahu....