Energy

...Hawaii Legislators pledge to Keep Shoveling Money to Silicon Valley Billionaires like Elon Musk....

...employees in Hawaii didn’t process cancellations representing about 40 percent of total orders in Hawaii between May 2015-October 2015....

GEMS, as a program, has been a miserable failure, resulting primarily in a large wad of cash that is just sitting in the bank. That’s why our legislature got the bright idea to “use” it to prop up another miserable failure – the “Cool the Schools” initiative....

“There is a limit to how much energy you can extract from a moving fluid, the Betz limit, and wind turbines are already close to it ….

...Not everyone in the solar industry agrees increased tariffs would be a good thing....

"...KIUC could increase its renewable portfolio by ten percent or more with pumped storage hydro...." --DHHL

...in 2016 26 percent of the electricity used by customers came from renewable resources - up from 23 percent the year before....

Gov. Ige’s signing of the new IECC will pave the way for the eventual adoption of the code by Hawai‘i’s counties, requiring that all new commercial and residential construction meet the code....

Honolulu ranks first for installed solar capacity per capita in the United States....

...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....

If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....

KIUC mailed 25,703 ballots and received 6,088, for a turnout of 23.7 percent, more than last year’s 21 percent turnout....

The Hawaiian Electric Companies reached a nearly 26 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard in 2016, up from 23 percent the year before....

The new study found the endangered hoary bat populations could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years as more wind turbines are built....

...researchers have determined that an average of 15.5 bats are killed at each individual wind turbine site every year....

In its 2016 Annual Report to the Legislature (pg4), HGIA explains it could write more loans if only its Board had more insiders....

The change is expected to save the county approximately $400,000 annually....

KIUC expects to reach 50% in 2018....

...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....

Ekins-Coward worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute....

Up to 2,000 customers dependent on life support equipment or increased heating and cooling needs due to a medical condition verified by a physician....

In the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill did....

It will be the largest solar-plus-utility-scale-battery system in the state of Hawaiʻi and one of the biggest storage systems in the world....

The purpose of this announcement is to show that insufficient wind projects are proposed for Oahu thus justifying an inter-island cable ....

Nishina previously served in the role from December 2009 to January 2011....

...Renewable? 100% Does not Really Mean 100%....

Members can also run for the cooperative’s board by submitting a petition with the names of at least 35 members by the close of business on Tuesday, January 3, 2017....

...a landmark report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, released earlier this month....

Company cites spending $900M in grid upgrades for reliability, renewable energy....

The lawsuit by Hu Honua Bioenergy accuses Hawaii Electric Light of refusing to agree to extensions....

...Rep Ryan Zinke (R-MT) is a member of the House Natural Resources Committee....

The average price per kilowatt hour for KIUC members is down 18 percent in 2016 when compared to 2008....

Pruitt led the fight against the Clean Power Plan, the Waters of the United States rule, and the Renewable Fuel Standard....

...18 Nene killed by the Kaheawa Pastures turbines with ridiculously small search areas and infrequent search intervals....

...these turbines are contributing to species extinction faster than any other source of energy....

Norwegian energy giant Statoil is mulling a floating wind farm in Hawaii, its first offshore foray in the U.S. since abandoning a test project off Maine three years ago....

...OHAʻs Dirty Geothermal Secret.....

Island Energy Services, LLC ("Island Energy"), an entity controlled by One Rock Capital Partners, LP, yesterday completed its acquisition of Chevron U.S.A. Inc.'s refining, distribution and retail assets located in Hawaii....

Expenditures on gasoline and other energy goods declined 27.4 percent in Hawaii....

...submitting false applications for federal clean energy grants to which they were not entitled....

...Four large power plants could produce as much electricity as offshore wind turbines placed side by side along the entire Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida....

...Only 8 states have RETAIL rates higher than the 0.145 per kwh WHOLESALE rate HECO is touting here as if it were a good price for erratic electricity....

After Hawaii’s lucrative net metering program ended last October, the solar industry in the state lost about 450 jobs. Total employment now is just above 600....

Here's how the rates will compare with current residential rates....

...it turns out that Hillary Clinton confirmed this fact in a private speech to tinePublic on June 18, 2014....

"As homeowners default, the 'true-up mechanism' allows your electric bill to be increased to pay for the deadbeats."

TOU rates are higher during the evening when the overall electricity demand is greatest....

If approved, a typical residential bill for 500 kilowatt hours on Hawaiʽi Island would increase by $9.31 a month to $171.16....