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Entries for 'UHERO'
Friday, December 14, 2018 |
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UHERO Economic Forecast: Record-high Visitor Numbers--Unimpressive Income Gains
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 2561 Views :: Economy
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...record-high visitor numbers, record-low unemployment, and ongoing—if unimpressive—income gains....
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Revenue Decoupling Jacks up Utility Rates
By UHERO @ 3:36 AM :: 2702 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...statistically significant upward adjustments on average are observed across utilities that experienced decoupling....
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Monday, October 1, 2018 |
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Food Waste Recycling Program Makes Pigs Happy--But Costs City at H-Power
By UHERO @ 8:45 PM :: 3794 Views :: Honolulu County, Agriculture, Small Business
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“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.”
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Friday, September 28, 2018 |
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Hawaii Construction Forecast: After Pullback, Construction Prospects Firm
By UHERO @ 11:33 PM :: 3901 Views :: Development, Economy, Labor
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...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....
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Friday, September 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii's Growth Down, But Not Out
By UHERO @ 2:49 PM :: 2476 Views :: Economy
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...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....
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Friday, August 10, 2018 |
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As SEC Closes in on Elon Musk, UHERO Continues to Dream Up New Ways to Send Him Money
By UHERO @ 1:29 AM :: 2992 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...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?....
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Thursday, June 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Wind and Solar will Drive up Electric Rates a Lot More
By UHERO @ 3:06 AM :: 3656 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...the variability of solar and wind power makes the system-wide costs grow considerably as their share of the power mix rises....
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Thursday, June 7, 2018 |
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Is the Hawaii Convention Center Profitable?
By UHERO @ 1:59 AM :: 3742 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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...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....
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Friday, June 1, 2018 |
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UHERO: Healthy county economies face growing pains
By UHERO @ 9:47 PM :: 2235 Views :: Economy
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...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
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Who is Driving Electric Vehicles in Hawaii?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 3665 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....
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Monday, May 14, 2018 |
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UHERO: Rolling Blackouts Can Hide Green Energy Rate Hikes
By UHERO @ 7:56 PM :: 3009 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Dynamic pricing = 'Voluntary' rolling blackouts or brownouts. You agree to use at certain hours and not at others ....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii set for more growth
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 3175 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...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....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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Rethinking Hawaii Tourism: Time to Shift from Marketing to Managing Tourism?
By UHERO @ 2:06 AM :: 2326 Views :: Tourism
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...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....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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Republican Tax Cuts Pump $1.3B into Hawaii Economy
By UHERO @ 1:30 AM :: 4740 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii’s Long Expansion Gets Global Economic Lift
By UHERO @ 3:38 PM :: 3806 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Governing Green Power: Realigning Institutions to Shovel Ratepayer Money to Elon Musk
By UHERO @ 3:15 PM :: 2663 Views :: Energy
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...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....
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Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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UHERO: 25 Years Later we still don't know what Sustainable Tourism is
By UHERO @ 3:18 AM :: 2758 Views :: Tourism
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...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
By UHERO @ 3:49 PM :: 2923 Views :: Economy
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...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
By UHERO @ 4:04 PM :: 4882 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Rail
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...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....
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Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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UHERO County Forecast: Economies Still Growing, But Slowing
By UHERO @ 11:59 PM :: 3583 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy begins Trump Era in fine form
By UHERO @ 4:38 PM :: 2836 Views :: Economy
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...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 3007 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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What are the Financial Benefits of a University of Hawaii Education?
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 3371 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete?
By UHERO @ 6:59 PM :: 3430 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....
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Friday, March 3, 2017 |
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UHERO Fears Trumpmonster: “Many things could go wrong in Washington”
By UHERO @ 3:51 PM :: 3102 Views :: Economy
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"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 5504 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...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....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 3440 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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How Many Tourists is Too Many?
By UHERO @ 2:15 AM :: 3326 Views :: Tourism
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Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
By UHERO @ 1:37 AM :: 3299 Views :: Economy
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...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Regulating Home-Share Rentals in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:08 AM :: 4559 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Tourism
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Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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UHERO Panic Attack: Trump More Dangerous than China
By UHERO @ 2:47 PM :: 3463 Views :: Economy
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...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Desperately Seeking Housing in Honolulu
By UHERO @ 11:29 PM :: 3276 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...presentation for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 2016 summit, "Still Houseless in Honolulu."....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Obama’s Recession Produced Greater Inequality in Health
By UHERO @ 11:25 PM :: 2842 Views :: Health Care
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...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 |
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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TOU Pricing: A Cool New Way to Raise Your Electric Rates
By UHERO @ 10:13 PM :: 2714 Views :: Energy
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...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
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UHERO: How State Shares Transient Accommodation Tax With Counties
By UHERO @ 9:49 PM :: 3142 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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This paper examines Hawaii’s recent effort at developing a model to allocate the state’s transient accommodation tax....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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Variable Electric Pricing: What a Difference a Rate Makes
By UHERO @ 11:53 PM :: 3069 Views :: Energy
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...variable pricing of electricity, both wholesale and retail, can lower the cost of intermittent renewables....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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UHERO: Hawaii Innovation Matters
By UHERO @ 9:17 PM :: 3975 Views :: Economy, Small Business
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Innovation is the key to economic growth and prosperity....
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
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UHERO Tries to Make Hi-Tech Tax Credits Look Good
By UHERO @ 3:01 AM :: 3256 Views :: Tax Credits
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"...innovation-oriented projects that improve the living standards of Hawaii residents...." LOL!
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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UHERO: Recent Trends in Hawaii's Green Economy: Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resource Management
By UHERO @ 5:55 PM :: 5532 Views :: Energy, Agriculture, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...three sectors that are key to future sustainability in Hawai‘i - energy, agriculture and natural resource management....
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Sunday, January 31, 2016 |
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UHERO: New Perspectives on Land and Housing Markets in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:03 AM :: 2658 Views
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...Honolulu’s inflation-adjusted land and housing prices have been highly volatile in the medium term since the 1960s....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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UHERO: Status Update on Federal GHG Emissions Reduction Policy for Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:16 PM :: 3132 Views :: Energy
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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....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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UHERO Hawaii Forecast: Expansion Will Continue, Despite Global Challenges
By UHERO @ 2:36 PM :: 3260 Views :: Economy
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Next year will see some easing of visitor growth....
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 |
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Gauging Home Affordability: The Challenge
By UHERO @ 12:02 AM :: 3157 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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At a time of dwindling inventory and rising prices, housing affordability has once again become a hot topic in Hawaii....
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Saturday, November 7, 2015 |
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UHERO: Research Driven Energy Policy
By UHERO @ 8:59 PM :: 3147 Views :: Energy
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Take, for example, public discussion surrounding the potential merger of HECO and NextEra....
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Sunday, October 25, 2015 |
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Does PV Add Home Value?
By UHERO @ 1:15 PM :: 3158 Views :: Energy
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...PV already installed on a home is worth about $4,000 more than the median value of a PV permit....
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Friday, September 25, 2015 |
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UHERO: Tourism, Construction Lead Economy
By UHERO @ 4:41 PM :: 4409 Views :: Economy, Rail, Tourism
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Tourism is pushing toward new records, and the construction upswing is building in strength....
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Monday, July 20, 2015 |
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UHERO: Decoupling Socks Electric Ratepayers with Soaring Fixed Costs
By UHERO @ 9:18 PM :: 4994 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....
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Sunday, June 7, 2015 |
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UHERO: Neighbor Island Tourism Still Has Room to Grow
By UHERO @ 3:08 PM :: 3969 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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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....
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