Energy

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....

...its net positive macroeconomic impacts are small....

"The extremely high cost of utility power in Hawaii has made it one of the most attractive markets...."

“Renewable Watch” for Oahu, Maui and Hawaii Island, online displays that show the daily contribution of solar and wind generation on each island and how energy from these resources changes throughout the day....

...leases which may be essential for Par Petroleum’s refinery operations....

In this policy brief, we identify the existing PURPA-based contracts in Hawai'i ....

IRONY: PUC Commissioner Hermina Morita, adored by environmentalists, is facing fines for violating Hawaii conservation and zoning laws....

Mr Zell controls 33 per cent of Par Petroleum, an oil and gas company operating in Hawaii....

This is the first phase of a plan which would develop smart grids across Oahu, in Maui County and on Hawaii Island by 2018....

Located in Kawaihae on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii, 35 miles north of Kailua-Kona, the assets are being marketed in a sealed bid offering that closes at 5:00 p.m. (PT)on April 4....

David Iha, Teofilo "Phil" Tacbian and Peter Yukimura have been reelected to the board of directors of Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative.....

...IDG officers and associates gave over $10,000 to Malama Solomon for her tightly contested 2012 primary race against Lorraine Inouye....

In 2012 Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Business School Professor visited Hawaii....

The construction of a 50,000 panel solar farm at the entrance of the Wai‘anae Coast at Kahe Point is being proposed....

This morning, the DOE announced it has selected Chevron Energy Solutions to help lead implementation of the five-year sustainable energy program, to be called Ka Hei....

EDF has been advocating for states to establish On-Bill Repayment (OBR) programs that allow property owners and tenants to finance clean energy....

The sequence of events seems to go like this: Elected officials – in this case our Governor – are treated to a persuasive sales pitch and sign off prematurely on a “bold new concept.”....

...residential electricity rates are three times the national average....

Record 18% of electricity used by Hawaiian Electric customers was from renewable sources....

It turns out they never needed the battery system in the first place.... 

...its major impact has been as a funding source for energy and food security initiatives....

...Xtreme Power earned the 15th spot on Inc. Magazine's 500/5000 list of the fast growing private companies in the U.S. in 2012--now they're BK....

...the economic life of onshore wind turbines is between 10 and 15 years, not the 20 to 25 years projected by the wind industry itself, and used for government projections....

These bills offer 50 million dollars in bonds for the Ikehu Molokai project proposed by Molokai Ranch and Princeton Energy....

...nearly a century after the generating station first started providing electricity to the people of Oahu....

This brief analysis is a simple case of a picture is worth one thousand words....

KIUC has charged $10.27 a month to customers who choose not to use a wireless smart meter....

Xtreme Power...announced today that it filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11....

A total of 17,609 solar installations with more than 129 megawatts capacity were added....

The Kuakini project is part of Metrus' $75 million commitment to the White House's Better Buildings Challenge....

...a “glaring problem” with Mr. Asquith’s motion was that it did not include the PUC....

...some of the worst-performing buildings in the country have received LEED's highest scores....

The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) Nominating Committee has confirmed 11 candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 8, 2014....

HECO enjoys full revenue decoupling, fuel and purchased power pass-through recovery, rates based on forward test years...and recovery of increases in certain operating expenses and capital investments between rate cases through riders....

... why should an ever-expanding list of business risks be transferred from the utility to its customers? ....

Today, riskier investments appear to improve public pension funding. Current accounting rules mean that riskier investments are given higher expected rates of return....

OTEC is allegedly building a sea-water air conditioning system for downtown Honolulu.

...in the event the commission receives evidence that the Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a ruling which disqualifies Mr. Caliboso, the commission intends to re-visit the issue....

When the PTC was last extended, in January 2013, Congress changed the criteria. A project only had to be in construction before the expiration date to be eligible for the tax credit....

The renewable energy projects presented in this directory are demonstrating progress in becoming commercial enterprises....