Entries for 'UHERO'

...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....

...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....

Using Vog from Kilauea to Estimate the Health Consequences of Particulate and SO2 Pollution....

...Assuming affirmative resolution of ongoing entitlement battles for Hoopili and Koa Ridge, single-family building will begin to pick up over the next two years....

NELHA currently accommodates 37 tenants ranging from companies bottling deep sea water to solar and biofuel companies....

...not all damage from the past recession has been repaired....

...the early years of one of the most successful tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii, from about 1870 to 1940....

Carl Bonham presented this 2014 economic recap and 2015 forecast on January 20, 2015 at an event hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii....

...if prices stay this low, it will take up to four months before electricity prices fully reflect the drop in oil prices....

The drop in crude oil prices from $112/ barrel in June of 2014 to $46/barrel today will, if sustained, provide a nice boost to Hawaii’s economy....

...The latest installment in the UHERO dashboard project is packed with information on the cost of travel to Hawaii from the US mainland....

Including indirect and induced benefits and adjusting for inter-county feedback and spillover effects, the astronomy sector had a total impact of $167.86 million statewide....

...to estimate the impacts of Hawaii importing LNG for use in the electric sector....

Weak tourism and federal downsizing are holding down growth.  Construction has disappointed this year....

Under the current rate structure, DG providers are providing “cheap” electricity while consuming “expensive” electricity....