Energy

...VA Drops Millions on Delayed Solar Power Projects....

...Approximately $600 million of debt affected....

...dividing the project into an AC portion and an energy portion would greatly reduce the per-classroom cost....

...the Interior Department is accepting bids for offshore wind leases in two areas off the Hawaiian island of Oahu....

Barrons: Hawaii Only Place Anybody is Talking About Solar Battery Storage....

...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....

...on track to burn almost 10 million gallons less oil than it did in 2006....

...projects and initiatives by Hawaiian Electric to significantly increase its production of renewable energy by the end of the decade....

... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....

Suddenly biomass is not clean energy?

Now you know what the NextEra fight was all about....

No mention of LNG in this news release....

Under the settlement, the two companies will spend about $403 million to install and operate pollution control equipment....

NextEra Energy and Hawaiian Electric Industries announce termination of Merger Agreement....

Morita is petitioning the court to order Gorak to state the authority under which Gorak claims to be a PUC commissioner....

In a 2-0 decision, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission today dismissed without prejudice....

Eligible proposers include financiers, developers, equipment manufacturers, nonprofit organizations, and other clean energy industry participants....

...OKs Ige to appoint (anti-NextEra) Tom Gorak on an interim basis to the Public Utilities Commission after (pro NextEra) Commissioner Mike Champley’s term expired....

...HB 2569 (Act 176) which aims to expedite the goals of the Department of Education to cool Hawai‘i’s schools, reduce energy costs, meet Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals....

...Iwase said he is hopeful a decision could come by next week--but not in the next two days....

...this act allows for the use of state special purpose revenue bonds to be used to finance publicly owned energy cooperatives....

All public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Hawaiian Electric Companies' service territory are receiving new, intelligent, energy-monitoring devices and software....

...a call for information and nominations to gauge the wind industry’s interest in commercial wind leases in two areas offshore Oahu....

...after allegedly misrepresenting information related to requirements for interconnecting solar energy systems....

For a short while earlier this year, it looked as though the $144 million in the state’s bond-financed Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) account might actually get used....

...her spouse was employed by Parsons as a Vice President and was Parsons’ principal consultant and a point of contact for 12 DOT Parsons Projects....

Floating turbine foundations cost about eight times more than seafloor-based supports for their conventional counterparts....

Jennifer Kajiyama and Carol Feinga are part of Keep Laie Cool, an initiative working to solve the crisis of Hawaii’s hot classrooms....

...Monday May 16, 2016 starting at 9am....

...After all the hype, 94% of Hawaii baseload electricity comes from non-renewable sources....

"...to add the extra capacity for every vehicle’s charging needs will require solar panels and wind turbines on nearly every available inch of land....”

...variable pricing of electricity, both wholesale and retail, can lower the cost of intermittent renewables....

...an emergency appropriation of $100 million to fund equipment and installation costs for air conditioning, heat abatement measures and related energy efficiency measures....

Today we are looking at a bill in our Legislature that contains nothing....

...debtor in possession....

...The principles applicable to the California petroleum market without doubt similarly impact Hawaii....

...most of those “savings” are coming from taxpayers pockets....

...One Rock also has a unique strategic relationship with Mitsubishi Corporation....

The Alliance for Solar Choice (TASC) is run by the lead lobbyists for the two big companies — both have obvious Democratic Party connections....

...“The smart-grid program would cost the 455,000 HECO customers on average $747...."

A conversation with Dr. Keli'i Akina, president of the Grassroot Institute, about traffic congestion, Honolulu rail and Hawaii's renewable energy plans....

"...the southeast section of the Site Area is coterminous with (has the same boundaries as) a designated explosive dumping area...."

...the state's plan to eliminate all ground transportation that uses fossil fuels....

The newly-elected board members will be inaugurated on March 22....

If all 256 DOE schools replicate the first 74 campuses’ energy efficiency, the State of Hawaii could save more than $300 million over ten years....

Hawai'i is the first state in the nation to adopt a 100 percent renewable portfolio standard for the energy sector....

• Hawaii Island electricity use almost 49 percent from renewables
• Maui County 35 percent renewables; 
• Oahu 17 percent renewables

And Hawaii legislators are considering a gas tax hike ....