Energy

As much as an additional 12 cents/kilowatt hour could be added to each HECO bill on O`ahu, just for the undersea cable, according to an Integrated Resource Planning Final Report filed recently with the PUC....

Sue and Settle process has left Hawaii burdened with an EPA mandated ‘Regional Haze’ plan which forces human emitters to make up for emissions from Kilauea Volcano....

The feedstock for the biofuel is anticipated to be woody biomass-based....

Renewable fuel credit prices rose to record highs recently, reigniting the debate over repealing the federal government's ethanol mandate....

States with more homeowners and businesses “going solar” share these policies....

Gas is not only cleaner than coal, but the United States has become the largest producer of natural gas....

This company holds a BBB rating of “F” due in part to failing to answer 45 of 87 complaints against the business....

...we’ve set a course to provide even more low-cost clean energy to our customers....

a thick new blanket of North American oil cushioning the markets....

HB1149 (Relating to Wind Energy Facilities) requires a wind energy facility owner to be responsible for facility decommissioning and provide evidence of financial security....

both of the objectives mentioned by the US Energy Secretary are harder to achieve in Hawai‘i....

rising food and housing costs, a challenged public school system and few professional opportunities in a tourist-driven economy....

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

"Lowering customers’ costs by accelerating development of low-cost, fast track utility-scale renewable energy projects...."

Electricity demand in Hawaii is among the lowest in the country....

If President Obama’s proposed power plant emissions controls are enacted, it will destroy utilities burning coal, hike energy costs while making zero impact on earth’s climate...

Combined, the projects have committed to sell electricity to Hawaiian Electric at an average price of 15.9 cents per kilowatt-hour. This is ... the current cost of generating electricity from oil....

U.S. crude oil production grew by more than 1 million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and the largest in U.S. history....

The spike in food prices, coupled with the global economic crisis, halted and even reversed the long-time trend in reducing malnutrition....

Friends of Lana’i recently launched a 60 second television commercial on Hawaii’s KHNL’s 5:00 PM news....

Americans have no idea how much taxpayers and consumers, through higher energy bills, are spending to subsidize all of those green energy projects....

Excluding the refund of MECO revenues attributed to 2012, the EPS guidance range would be $0.02 higher....

Online less than two weeks, the petition has 2,935 signatures....

I Aloha Molokai looks at bottom up planning ....

the United States has blown past Russia to become the world's largest producer of natural gas, and America will shortly occupy the number one position in oil production as well....

a “huge, politically inspired environmental agenda” which would impose significant costs on the industry at a time when it could least afford them....

...part of the Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, which looks at how the utilities will meet future energy needs....

biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....

A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground...

Current law requires the federal government to approve all sales of U.S. gas abroad....

The industry is expected to grow for many decades as the proven reserves of America's shale gas formations continue to grow....

...dismay that their current mayor, Billy Kenoi and lobbyists like Mililani Trask, claim to speak for them....

...urges Governor Neil Abercrombie to add a USW Local 12-591 member to the Hawaii Refinery Task Force and to broaden the issues the task force will review....

“It’s not the easiest place in the world to do business,” one market source said of Hawaii.....

Honeywell CEO "Comfortable" Taking $25 Million from Taxpayers to Create Only Ten Jobs....

Governor is requested to engage and work with Lanai, Molokai, and the other neighbor island communities when formulating energy policy ....

"Now I know what it's like to be God."

...the $25 million taxpayer gift was specifically allocated for a biofuels demonstration plant to be built on Oahu....