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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
HECO Preps Power Safety Shutoff System for Dry Season
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 267 Views :: Energy, Environment

... Persistent drought conditions, Wind gusts 45 mph and higher, and Relative humidity below 45% ....

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Saturday, June 28, 2025
Japan buys Gulf Coast oil, Hawaii doesn’t, thanks to 1920 Jones Act
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:32 PM :: 753 Views :: Energy, Jones Act

...last year Japan imported over 9.5 million barrels of crude from Texas....

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
FULL TEXT: Whistleblower Exposes PUC Parties with HECO Execs--“We are setting ourselves up for the largest cost increase to consumers in history"
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 PM :: 1750 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Cost of Living

... FULL TEXT whistlelower complaint exposes PUC - HECO Corruption ....

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Amended fuel contract expected to save Oahu households nearly $3 a month on electric bills
By News Release @ 4:50 PM :: 417 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living

... The contract amendment negotiated with Par Hawaii and approved by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) includes significant changes aimed at stabilizing fuel costs ...

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Friday, June 6, 2025
Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:47 PM :: 618 Views :: Energy, Development

... regulations that allow community groups to essentially kill projects after they’ve been approved are the biggest hurdles to clear ....

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Sunday, June 1, 2025
Red tape strangling Hawaii's energy future
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:28 PM :: 700 Views :: Energy, Small Business

... there are at least a dozen layers of regulation that stifle energy innovation in Hawaii ....

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Sunday, May 25, 2025
VIDEO: $4000 Dela Cruz Campaign Contribution buys Shouting Match in Hilo 
By Andrew Walden @ 9:02 PM :: 4321 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics

... Was it worth it?   Senate Ways and Means Chair Donovan Dela Cruz got $4,000 in campaign contributions from convicted Unity House felon Roberta Cabral.  In exchange, we got a shouting match in Hilo .... 

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Friday, May 23, 2025
Hawaii: Where Clean Energy Projects Go to Die
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:31 PM :: 1157 Views :: Energy, Development, Land Use

... Over the past five years, 15 energy projects in the state have been cancelled — more than half of the power projects being considered ....

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Friday, May 23, 2025
Hawaii: A far-left state trying to hijack U.S. energy policy
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 AM :: 1257 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics, Judiciary

... Hawaii is at the vanguard of a coordinated legal campaign that aims to enact Green New Deal-type policies by lawsuit. And by all appearances, the state’s judiciary is an eager participant ....

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Hawaii 'Clean' Hydrogen to Come from Oil Refinery
By News Release @ 1:19 AM :: 1019 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy

... Hawaiʻi Gas' synthetic natural gas (SNG), made from naptha produced by the Par Pacific oil refinery on Oʻahu, contains up to 15% hydrogen—the highest percentage of any natural gas utility in the United States ....

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Residential electric bills in Hawaii and Connecticut are twice those in New Mexico, Utah
By Selected News Articles @ 4:20 PM :: 1051 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

... Customers in states such as Hawaii and Connecticut, where retail electricity prices are relatively high, paid more than $200 per month for electricity ....

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
BWS Approves Kalaeloa Desalination Plant
By News Release @ 3:51 PM :: 1069 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy

... $204 million project to design, construct, operate and maintain a 1.7 million gallon per day seawater desalination plant ....

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Friday, May 9, 2025
Campaign Contributions: Hawaii Climate Change Lawsuit Skips State's Only Refinery
By Selected News Articles @ 3:38 PM :: 1166 Views :: Democratic Party, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Politicians

"...While Democrats posture about taking on 'Big Oil,' they’re shielding Par Hawaii—a top fossil fuel donor to their own party—from climate lawsuits...."

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Friday, May 2, 2025
Complete Debunk: Hawaii AG Files Climate Change Lawsuit in State Court
By News Release @ 12:47 AM :: 3722 Views :: Energy, Environment

"... The federal lawsuit filed by the Justice Department attempts to block Hawaiʻi from holding the fossil fuel industry responsible ....”

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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Trump Admin Sues to Block Hawaii from Taking Fossil Fuel Companies To Court Over Climate Change
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 1171 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary

... Hawaii's anticipated lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry interferes with U.S. policy on greenhouse gas regulation and is an “extraordinary extraterritorial reach” ....

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
SCR198: Screwed out of Subrogation, Insurers Urged to Serve Legislature's Agenda by Suing Big Oil
By Andrew Walden @ 1:33 PM :: 1397 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics

"...We kicked your butt and took your subrogation money.  Now you work for us and serve our agenda by wasting your time on yet another bogus climate change lawsuit filed by Sher-Edling, of course...."

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Hawaii Housing Costs 53.47% of Median Income
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 AM :: 1105 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hawaii Residents Spend the Highest Percentage of Income on Housing ....

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Friday, April 18, 2025
SB1166: Hawaii Democrats Cooking Up Another Climate Lawfare Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 4:54 PM :: 1602 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

“...provide a new, specific cause of action...."

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
‘Long and tortuous path’ continues in Hawaii bioenergy dispute
By Court House News @ 5:16 AM :: 1038 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Labor

... A federal judge signaled he is likely to dismiss some claims in a dispute between Hu Honua and Hawaiian Electric ....

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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Jones Act Loophole Allows Puerto Rico to Finally Access American Natural Gas--Hawaii Next?
By Cato Foundation @ 11:23 PM :: 1076 Views :: Energy, Jones Act

... none of the world’s more than 600 LNG tankers comply with the Jones Act ....

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
43% of HECO Customers now have solar--but Hawaii Energy Remains 90.8% Fossil Fuel
By News Release @ 10:40 PM :: 1108 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

... Hawaii has among the highest rates of rooftop solar adoption in the nation and yet we are 90.8% fossil fuel ....

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Friday, March 14, 2025
'We Were Scammed:' NZ Lawsuits Expose fraudulent Hawaii Geothermal Developer
By Andrew Walden @ 9:07 PM :: 6979 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics, OHA

... Maori Trust insolvent, placed in receivership, after being looted by IDG Hawaii Geothermal schemers ....

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Hawaiian Electric Sells off Another Asset--Hamakua Power
By News Release @ 4:27 PM :: 989 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy

... HEI continues to raise money to cover Lahaina Fire settlement ....

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Monday, March 10, 2025
Pacific Biodiesel Occupies ADC Land In Keaʻau; No Lease, No Rent
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 1389 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Ethics

... for at least seven years the parcel has been used rent-free by Pacific Biodiesel ....

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Sunday, March 9, 2025
The Unity House Scandal Never Really Ended — decades later, it might bankrupt Hawaiian Electric
By Andrew Walden @ 1:39 AM :: 7420 Views :: Energy, Ethics, Higher Education, OHA, Cost of Living

... a leftover Unity House scheme could be costing Hawaiian Electric as much as $476M per year ....

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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Case and Ward ask Trump Admin to Ban Windfarms from Kaiwi Channel
By Rep Gene Ward @ 2:22 AM :: 1452 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy

... in light of President Trump’s welcome Executive Order temporarily withdrawing all areas of the outer continental shelf from leasing for wind energy ....

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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Hawaiian Electric claims to be 36% 'renewable'
By News Release @ 12:40 PM :: 1070 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

... In 2022, the state law determining the process for calculating RPS changed ....

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Monday, February 10, 2025
FULL TEXT: State Supreme Court Ruling Goes Against Maui Wildfire Insurers
By News Release @ 8:08 PM :: 2111 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Ethics, Judiciary

“…now comes the crisis in property insurance - much higher insurance premiums and insurers ceasing to write property insurance….” 

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Thursday, January 30, 2025
'50,000 Batteries' -- Green Signs 'Renewable' Energy Executive Order
By News Release @ 10:18 AM :: 1074 Views :: Energy

... 50,000 distributed renewable energy installations such as rooftop solar and battery systems by 2030 ....

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Trump Orders Temporary Withdrawal of Offshore Areas from Wind Leasing
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 1139 Views :: Energy, Environment

... temporary withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from wind energy leasing ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
HECO Unveils Expanded Wildfire Safety Strategy
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 1417 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

... 3-year plan focuses initial work on high-risk areas ....

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Monday, January 13, 2025
No-Fault Insurance for Electricity-Caused Wildfires?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 1186 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... modeled on Workers Comp .... 

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Monday, January 13, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Honolulu 'Big Oil' Suit to Proceed
By Court House News @ 3:50 PM :: 1440 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Judiciary

... The justices denied the oil and gas companies' petition without further explanation in Monday's orders list ....

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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Hawaii Democrats Talk a Big Game on the 'Climate Crisis.' They're Also Shielding an Oil Company Whose Execs Backed Their Campaigns
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 2348 Views :: Honolulu County, Maui County, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Congressional Delegation

... Since late 2019, Par Pacific's executives and PAC have collectively wired state Democrats a total of nearly $34,000 ....

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Friday, January 10, 2025
Hawaiian Electric to close Shift and Save time-of-use rates program to new enrollments
By News Release @ 12:34 AM :: 1176 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

... To date, about 14,000 residential and commercial customers have enrolled in Shift and Save ....

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Oil industry seeks end to climate change lawsuits
By Selected News Articles @ 1:14 PM :: 1185 Views :: Energy, Environment, Judiciary

... the defendants may have a valid argument in favor of federal law since Honolulu is suing over conduct taking place outside of Hawaii’s borders ....

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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Insider Giveaway? Hawaiian Electric Announces Sale of American Savings Bank
By Andrew Walden @ 2:05 PM :: 3061 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Economy

... Sale price of $405M for 90.1% of ASB suggests that the sale is a 50%-off giveaway to ASB insiders ....

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Red Flag Warning Ends with No Safety Shutoffs
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 1032 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy

... Any power outages were unrelated to the PSPS program ....

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Saturday, November 16, 2024
Day 2: Red Flag Warning May Lead to Power Shutoffs Today
By News Release @ 6:21 AM :: 2309 Views :: Energy

... The Red Flag Warning will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, for wind and low relative humidity in leeward areas of all Hawaiian Islands ....

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Hawaiian Electric Signs Bird Agreement
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 1646 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment

... commitments to address potential threats to seabirds from power lines on Maui and Lāna‘i, while pursuing permits under the federal Endangered Species Act and state law ....

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Monday, November 11, 2024
Hawaiian Electric Reports on First Year of Wildfire Safety Efforts
By News Release @ 7:29 PM :: 1480 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... Operational changes, new technology and Public Safety Power Shutoff lead to estimated 60% reduction in wildfire risk from utility equipment ....

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Saturday, November 9, 2024
Hawaiian Electric Reports 3Q Results--'Bankruptcy Threat Mitigated'
By News Release @ 1:39 AM :: 1895 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... management has determined that the conditions that led to the substantial doubt regarding HEI’s ability to continue as a going concern have been mitigated ....

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Thursday, November 7, 2024
Senate Holds Hearing on HECO Wildfire Plan
By News Release @ 11:31 PM :: 1373 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... Friday, November 8, 2024 at 830am ....

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Hawaiian Electric Still Pretending it has Wildfire Settlement
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 2292 Views :: Maui County, Energy

"...The Settlement Agreements do not resolve claims with insurers ...."

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Friday, October 25, 2024
Renewable Energy Does Nothing to Reduce Hawaii Electric Rates
By News Release @ 5:38 PM :: 1793 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics

... Hawaii #1 in Nation With Highest Electricity Costs (33.89 Cents per kWh), Despite 2.4x More Renewable Energy Than U.S. Average ....

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
‘Green energy transition’ is a myth
By Selected News Articles @ 12:28 PM :: 1283 Views :: Energy

... fossil fuel use has grown during this period ....

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Honolulu Airport 'Achieves Carbon Accreditation'
By News Release @ 11:24 AM :: 2808 Views :: Energy, Environment, Tourism

"...implemented sustainability strategies that have significantly reduced our carbon footprint and saved millions of dollars...."

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Red Flag: Hawaiian Electric avoids power shut-off to West Maui
By News Release @ 7:22 PM :: 1732 Views :: Maui County, Energy

... "The company monitored weather conditions throughout the day and saw a steady drop of wind speeds in the afternoon." ....

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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Public Input Sought for Hawaiʻi Gas Rate Increase
By News Release @ 4:57 AM :: 1258 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living

... 17% rate hike proposed ....

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Sunday, October 13, 2024
A Supreme Court case in Hawaii could raise gas costs for us all
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 1781 Views :: Energy, Judiciary

... it may be up to the US Supreme Court to set the matter straight ....

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