Energy

...These islands may soon be able to diversify their energy sources to include natural gas, because of relatively low natural gas prices and new shipping technology....

...the CCA approach was discussed at the “Electric Utilities: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be” conference....

... the Navy is paying $0.44 per kwh ....

Under the programs, customers receive financial incentives for shifting energy use to certain times of the day....

...electricity prices in Hawaii are nearly double those in the state with the next highest prices because Hawaii generates 75% of its electricity from petroleum and must rely on Jones Act vessels for all domestic oil shipments....

Former Hawaii state Sen. Fred Hemmings says politicians allowing monopoly control of Hawaii's energy market are largely responsible for high costs....

KIUC’s rates decreased 1.6 percent since 2008. By comparison, rates on Oahu have risen 21.5 percent over the same period....

WalletHub -- 2014's Most & Least Energy-Expensive States.

...the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that offers billions of taxpayer dollars for development of fossil fuels in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico and other countries....

...Hawaii's power prices are among the highest in the nation as well. Not surprisingly, one of the big reasons for this is taxation....

Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, is being awarded $334,135,534 for firm-fixed-price task order....

The city is preparing a request for proposal to form a public-private-partnership that will replace all 51,700 city streetlights with LEDs....

$88 million in energy financing statewide....

Year-over-year growth in the residential sector (60%) outpaced the overall U.S. market (41%) for the first time....

Solar City collects for itself tax subsidies intended for its consumers, who are left vulnerable to sudden spikes in their electricity bills....

Maine’s supreme court struck a major blow to First Wind when it overturned regulators’ approval....

California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....

Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...

“By the end of the first quarter, we had worked through the high-cost crude inventory...."

Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....

...the EPA's new cap-and-trade regulations will make the poor a lot poorer....

“In New Zealand we are trying to make new geothermal power stations work, competing with other forms of generation at probably 7.5 cents per KWh."

...the Environmental Protection Agency, which will release its carbon-dioxide regulations for existing power plants on Monday....

...HECO released an RFP in March for 800,000 tons of containerized LNG per year over 15 years, beginning in 2016 or 2017....

...it costs nearly twice as much to produce as natural gas....

Hawaii GEMS program will focus on making solar power accessible to renters and homeowners with low credit scores....

Moloka'i Ranch is launching initiatives to achieve sustainability, starting with the re-establishment of ranching operations....

...Petroleos Mexicanos said it will export crude to the U.S. state of Hawaii for the first time and that the initial shipment will be delivered in July....

Comments on the Draft PEIS should be submitted by July 17, 2014....

...the amount of land required to grow food has decreased by 65 percent over the last 50 years across the world....

Just one 25-gallon tank of ethanol requires 450 pounds of corn -- the same amount of calories it would take to feed one person for an entire year....

What might be the situation if one or both refineries closed ....

...Hawaiian Electric is seeking proposals for one or more large-scale energy storage systems able to store 60 to 200 megawatts for up to 30 minutes....

This newfound abundance has come primarily from the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing....

...four major decisions and orders that collectively provide key policy, resource planning, and operational directives to HECO....

...Tesoro indicated that domestic supply was not competitive, in part due to Jones Act restrictions....

Shippers are increasingly moving crude to a refinery in Canada....

The Hawaii Refinery Task Force has completed its year-long study of the potential impacts of refinery closures....

Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....

A new Rasmussen poll shows that 61 percent of the American public favor building the pipeline....

Many well-known people such as Governors Lingle and Abercrombie, Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Blue Planet Foundation's Henk Rogers, and Hawaii's only billionaire Pierre Omidyar have Sopogy egg on their face....

A new opinion poll sponsored by solar scammers argues that Hawaiian Electric (HECO) has a significant public image problem....

...a windfall gain for the typically wealthy households able to take advantage of the situation....

...this finding would not hold if fuel prices were substantively lower than current levels, either from falling prices or fuel-switching to lower cost products....

Here are two examples that may surprise you....

The reception afforded Gore baffled David Kreutzer, who writes about related misconceptions and myths....

This was actually Plan B, after an embarrassing failed attempt to go public in 2010....

Environment America (who?) released a new report: “Shining Cities: At the Forefront of America’s Solar Energy Revolution”....

...well over two thirds of the state’s generated electricity is used by commercial businesses and industry, which factor into the prices we pay for everything else....

HELCO rates are consistently more than 37 cents a kilowatt-hour, and often well over 40 cents, despite nearly half of the island’s electricity being generated from renewable sources....