Energy

...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....

...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....

"One thousand classrooms now have air conditioning, and over 300 more will be complete by the end of September. In addition, hundreds more have been cooled using other heat abatement strategies,” Gov. Ige said....

...There's a sucker born every minute....

...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions.  He expects to be repaid....

...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....

...Hawaiian Electric Company will host a public meeting on Monday, Aug. 7, at McKinley High School....

...Hawaii ranks 37th in monthly energy cost....

“Regarding our ability to retrieve energy, we don’t need anybody. Transportation may be our biggest impediment.”

The noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves....

...Hawaii also stood out as having one of the lowest average home size of all states.... 

"The department has made every effort to find solutions to cooling our classrooms in ways that are not only cost-efficient but also energy efficient..."

...More sweetheart contracts to buy overpriced electricity from campaign contributors....

...fifteen senators wanted to stick their thumbs in the Governor’s eye....

...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....

...Hawaii Legislators pledge to Keep Shoveling Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires like Elon Musk....

...employees in Hawaii didn’t process cancellations representing about 40 percent of total orders in Hawaii between May 2015-October 2015....

GEMS, as a program, has been a miserable failure, resulting primarily in a large wad of cash that is just sitting in the bank. That’s why our legislature got the bright idea to “use” it to prop up another miserable failure – the “Cool the Schools” initiative....

“There is a limit to how much energy you can extract from a moving fluid, the Betz limit, and wind turbines are already close to it ….

...Not everyone in the solar industry agrees increased tariffs would be a good thing....

"...KIUC could increase its renewable portfolio by ten percent or more with pumped storage hydro...." --DHHL

...in 2016 26 percent of the electricity used by customers came from renewable resources - up from 23 percent the year before....

Gov. Ige’s signing of the new IECC will pave the way for the eventual adoption of the code by Hawai‘i’s counties, requiring that all new commercial and residential construction meet the code....

Honolulu ranks first for installed solar capacity per capita in the United States....

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

If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....

KIUC mailed 25,703 ballots and received 6,088, for a turnout of 23.7 percent, more than last year’s 21 percent turnout....

The Hawaiian Electric Companies reached a nearly 26 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard in 2016, up from 23 percent the year before....

The new study found the endangered hoary bat populations could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years as more wind turbines are built....

...researchers have determined that an average of 15.5 bats are killed at each individual wind turbine site every year....

In its 2016 Annual Report to the Legislature (pg4), HGIA explains it could write more loans if only its Board had more insiders....

The change is expected to save the county approximately $400,000 annually....

KIUC expects to reach 50% in 2018....

...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....

Ekins-Coward worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute....

Up to 2,000 customers dependent on life support equipment or increased heating and cooling needs due to a medical condition verified by a physician....

In the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill did....

It will be the largest solar-plus-utility-scale-battery system in the state of Hawaiʻi and one of the biggest storage systems in the world....

The purpose of this announcement is to show that insufficient wind projects are proposed for Oahu thus justifying an inter-island cable ....

Nishina previously served in the role from December 2009 to January 2011....

...Renewable? 100% Does not Really Mean 100%....