Energy

... 5 ways to transfer more of your money to Elon Musk ....

...Public meetings: The three public scoping meetings will be held at the following locations....

...As directed by the Hawaii State Legislature, the Department of Business, Economic Development and  Tourism (DBEDT) is conducting a study on alternative electric utility and regulatory models in Hawaii....

...Net zero does not mean zero. Hawaii can cause a global rise in greenhouse gas emissions and call it net zero....

...Neither well is expected to release any hydrogen sulfide....

...Residents of Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland are isolated due to lava inundation of Beach Road at Four Corners....

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

...BLNR has given the greenlight to Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings LLC’s Na Pua Makani Power Partners LLC’s plans to build a 25-megawatt wind farm near Kahuku....

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

...money can be transferred directly from your electric bill to needy Silicon Valley billionaires....

...Largely due to the Tesla solar-plus-storage facility that opened in March 2017, KIUC added 415.3 watts of storage per customer in 2017, more than eight times as much storage as second place honoree Tucson Electric Power....

...From 2010 through 2015, the Sierra Club Foundation received more than $18 million and Natural Resources Defense Council received more than $15 million....

...this can only mean one thing--more rate hikes coming....

...Over the past 15 years, the people of Hawaii have paid 260% more for electricity than the US average, while gasoline prices consistently hover close to $1-per-gallon higher.  (But we can go even higher)....

...Each year, the survey ranks nearly 70 of the nation’s major cities by megawatts of solar energy....

...Broad economic, environmental benefits described in electrification of transportation 'roadmap'....

...your green is burned to create their energy....

...Notice that they never mention the Cost?....

...Newly-elected director Janet L. Kass will join incumbent directors David Iha and Teofilo Phil Tacbian who have been re-elected....

...converting approximately 53,500 city-owned street lights to more energy efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lights....

...tag-team efforts of Russian trolls and ‘keep it in the ground’ activists....

...the PUC’s $2.8 million Document Management System (DMS) is almost universally considered by management and staff to be difficult to use, unreliable, slow, and obsolete, with staff developing elaborate workarounds to accommodate for the system’s shortcomings. Yet the PUC has no firm plans to fix or replace this problematic system....

...Electricity prices are highest in Hawaii but due to low consumption, expenditures are 'only' 4th highest in the USA....

...Meanwhile: While Most States Clean Up, Hawaii CO2 Emissions Rise Since '08....

...The bill impact of the interim rate is expected to be reduced by the application of anticipated corporate tax savings that are the result of the new federal tax law that took effect on Jan. 1, 2018....

...new regulations in October 2016 requiring coal and raw palm oil exporters to ship on Indonesian flag ships....

...a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) was surreptitiously imported into the United States on January 28, 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts, in apparent violation of sanctions....

...HIDOE's Thermal Comfort website features data collected from weather stations and indoor monitoring sensors at Hawaii's public schools....

...Russian money flowing to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, 350.org, the Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, the Rainforest Action Network....

...The current average annual cost of driving a typical new gasoline vehicle in the United States is $1,117, with a maximum of $1,509 in Hawaii and a minimum of $993 in Alabama....

...State and federal taxes are included in the base electric rate and with a lower federal tax, the tax rate imbedded in the bill will be reduced....

..."A search of the world wide web reveals that no media source covered the event."....

...the PUC has basically said that it expects the program to crash and burn....

...six candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....

...Energy Office’s personnel costs now account for more than 90 percent of the office’s expenses....

...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....

...The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Nominating Committee has selected five candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....

...Chaos is Coming: You can sue too—Here are some ideas....

...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....

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

...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an application from the Lalamilo Wind Company LLC for an incidental take permit of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel....

...These two factors combined mean Hawai‘i Energy operated at its most efficient, lowest cost of acquired savings ever....

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

...Plan to kill 41 Nene and 48 bats....

...Lower energy costs to UH with HECO picking up the transmission tab means higher electric rates for consumers--just as has happened with rooftop solar....

...Last year biodiesel represented 2 percent of HECO’s oil and diesel consumption. (Translation: Its an expensive fig leaf for diesel plants.)....

...a seawater jet powered by Hawaii tax credits is used to shoot pies up into the sky--electricity is generated by harnessing the energy of the pies as they fall back to Earth....

...The Hawaii plan includes granular details down to, for example, how many specially outfitted medical aircraft the federal government would send to Hawaii after a Category 4 hurricane. It also describes an 85-step process to restore electricity....

... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....

...The Hawaii legislature has directed the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) to undertake a study on the future of utility ownership models on each island in Hawaii....