Energy

Calls Purported Benefits Illusory and Inadequate....

The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission has set formal evidentiary hearings and public listening sessions on NextEra Energy Inc.’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Electric Co., according to public documents....

...at home using electricity from the grid will be most expensive during peak electricity demand from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.....

All low-carbon electricity generation technologies, including renewables, energy efficiency, natural gas, nuclear and carbon capture and storage, can play a role in state plans....

...an economic study for commissioned by the state recommends Hawaii raise taxes on gasoline by $.85 per gallon....

...What matters is whether the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative is delivering the CO2 reductions which for many justify the increased expense.  The answer is no.....

2015 may go down in the books as the year support for renewable energy died....

Residential customers now pay roughly $0.17/kWh for fixed costs....

...fuel taxes are "highly regressive," meaning that they hurt the poor the most....

"...will instead concentrate on the PUC's pending Power Supply Improvement Plan (PSIP) docket, which is better suited to address transformational planning issues...."

Since October, 2014 more than 15,000 applications have been approved to install or interconnect....

Each month, this customer will receive credit for a share of the electricity output of the community solar facility and pay a small maintenance fee, in total reducing the customer’s electric bill by about 45 percent....

KIUC has also heard complaints from members who are now paying more for their rooftop solar than their previous electric bill....

...the threat of losing NEM has led some in the PV industry down the path of hyperbole, exaggeration and self-interested fear-mongering....

The average monthly consumption of electricity per housing unit in Louisiana is triple that in Hawaii....

Rising wages in China and increased industrial productivity in the United States contributed to that trend, but the report cited hydraulic fracturing as the primary reason for the shift in costs....

For example, the Aina Koa Pono project....

...electric vehicles generate a negative environmental benefit of about -0.5 cents per mile relative to comparable gasoline vehicles....

...At the end of 2014, customers were annually shifting an estimated $53 million, an increase of $15 million over the 2013 estimated total of $38 million....

...Ige will join other elected officials and business leaders for the Washington Post’s “Powering Cities” forum on Tuesday, June 23...

...it is OK that their plan would gut the tourism industry because it would also drive Hawaii's cost of living up to the point where residents could no longer afford to leave....

...it does not specify any penalties. It also outlines broad reasons the requirements may be waived....

...federal subsidies to wind power do not create investment out of nowhere; they simply distort the relative cost of producing wind energy, shifting investments from other sectors of the economy to wind projects....

The applicant is requesting an ITP to authorize take of one threatened and six endangered species....

Many fossil fuel producers will benefit, while the poor—and the economy—will suffer....

...one more organ of old-boy power is dissolved into corporate America....

...directing the state’s utilities to generate 100 percent of their electricity sales from renewable energy resources by 2045....

...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....

In order to further explore the possibility of Maui County running its own power utility....

...last year’s production and use of 14 billion gallons of corn ethanol resulted in 27 million tons more carbon emissions than if Americans had used straight gasoline in their vehicles....

Today’s newspaper front page reports on an offshore wind energy proposal that brings back memories of a similar plan way back in 2008....

On December 9, 2013, the Obama Administration finalized a regulation allowing wind energy companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill eagles....

The merger agreement requires 75% approval by shareholders, so far it only has 70% approval....

...it would take over 7 years before the savings would cover the cost of the Powerwall....

Before signing a long-term lease, ask yourself some questions....

...Consumers pay for electricity twice: once through monthly electricity bills and a second time through taxes that finance subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers....

"I don't think we should get all agitated and upset when there's an effort to look at the Jones Act," Murkowski said....

Built with your tax dollars, via crony capitalist Act 221 High Tech Tax Credits, Hawaii....

NewsHour special correspondent Mike Taibbi reports....

Unknown to perhaps everyone at the time, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) Energy Agreement died in September of last year....

...Since decoupling, total 'baseline expenditures' increased 229%--from $161M to $368M....

...in blue states like Vermont, Oregon, Maine, Hawaii, and Washington....

The transaction remains subject to approval by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission....

The new savings estimators are part of the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ support for electrification of transportation....