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Entries for 'UHERO'
Friday, February 15, 2019 |
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Charting a New Course For Hawaii Tourism
By UHERO @ 1:21 PM :: 3754 Views :: Tourism
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...Diminishing economic contribution, eroding resident sentiment, and increasing congestion and stress on sites and attractions provide evidence that the current governance model is inadequate....
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Friday, February 8, 2019 |
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UHERO: New Benchmarking Will Reveal Higher Unemployment
By UHERO @ 3:09 PM :: 3971 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...We expect downward revisions in the healthcare industry and in accommodation and food services, where job gains remained lackluster throughout 2018....
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Friday, December 14, 2018 |
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UHERO Economic Forecast: Record-high Visitor Numbers--Unimpressive Income Gains
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 3650 Views :: Economy
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...record-high visitor numbers, record-low unemployment, and ongoing—if unimpressive—income gains....
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Revenue Decoupling Jacks up Utility Rates
By UHERO @ 3:36 AM :: 4539 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...statistically significant upward adjustments on average are observed across utilities that experienced decoupling....
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Monday, October 1, 2018 |
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Food Waste Recycling Program Makes Pigs Happy--But Costs City at H-Power
By UHERO @ 8:45 PM :: 5884 Views :: Honolulu County, Agriculture, Small Business
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“The vast majority of those businesses impacted by the City’s food waste recycling ordinance are continuing to use local piggeries to recycle their food waste.”
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Friday, September 28, 2018 |
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Hawaii Construction Forecast: After Pullback, Construction Prospects Firm
By UHERO @ 11:33 PM :: 6087 Views :: Development, Economy, Labor
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...Following two years of decline, the pace of building in Hawaii has stabilized. The value of construction permits is posting healthy gains across all sub-sectors this year....
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Friday, September 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii's Growth Down, But Not Out
By UHERO @ 2:49 PM :: 3780 Views :: Economy
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...Global tourism continues to power forward, and there remains a healthy pipeline of construction work. And even with the recent labor market weakness, Hawaii continues to enjoy its lowest unemployment in many years....
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Friday, August 10, 2018 |
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As SEC Closes in on Elon Musk, UHERO Continues to Dream Up New Ways to Send Him Money
By UHERO @ 1:29 AM :: 4604 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...This study asks the question, how valuable is residential real-time pricing (RTP) in comparison to time-of-use (TOU) rates to absorb increasing sources of intermittent renewable energy?....
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Thursday, June 21, 2018 |
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UHERO: Wind and Solar will Drive up Electric Rates a Lot More
By UHERO @ 3:06 AM :: 5492 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...the variability of solar and wind power makes the system-wide costs grow considerably as their share of the power mix rises....
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Thursday, June 7, 2018 |
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Is the Hawaii Convention Center Profitable?
By UHERO @ 1:59 AM :: 5496 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tourism
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...HTA CEO George Szegeti said “In CY2017 the convention center turned a net operating profit of $1.1 million, marking its second consecutive year of profitability.” This is surprising news, indeed....
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Friday, June 1, 2018 |
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UHERO: Healthy county economies face growing pains
By UHERO @ 9:47 PM :: 3360 Views :: Economy
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...Tourism keeps surprising to the upside, even as visitor numbers strain infrastructure and communities....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
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Who is Driving Electric Vehicles in Hawaii?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 5719 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....
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Monday, May 14, 2018 |
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UHERO: Rolling Blackouts Can Hide Green Energy Rate Hikes
By UHERO @ 7:56 PM :: 4558 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Dynamic pricing = 'Voluntary' rolling blackouts or brownouts. You agree to use at certain hours and not at others ....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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UHERO: Hawaii set for more growth
By UHERO @ 4:59 PM :: 4494 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Tourism has surged again in the first part of 2018, extending one of the longest periods of sustained visitor growth. Construction, while volatile month to month, also remains on a high plateau....
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Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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Rethinking Hawaii Tourism: Time to Shift from Marketing to Managing Tourism?
By UHERO @ 2:06 AM :: 3417 Views :: Tourism
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...Even though most respondents still think tourism brings more benefits than costs to our state, the percent of those who think otherwise has been rising for some time....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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Republican Tax Cuts Pump $1.3B into Hawaii Economy
By UHERO @ 1:30 AM :: 6389 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii’s Long Expansion Gets Global Economic Lift
By UHERO @ 3:38 PM :: 5372 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Governing Green Power: Realigning Institutions to Shovel Ratepayer Money to Elon Musk
By UHERO @ 3:15 PM :: 3992 Views :: Energy
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...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....
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Friday, November 17, 2017 |
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UHERO: 25 Years Later we still don't know what Sustainable Tourism is
By UHERO @ 3:18 AM :: 3817 Views :: Tourism
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...the report concludes that Hawaii is not yet at the stage of overtourism....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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UHERO: Economy Slowing, Despite Arrivals Boom
By UHERO @ 3:49 PM :: 4120 Views :: Economy
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...the consequence of a flattening construction path and the natural effects of tightening labor markets....
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Friday, September 22, 2017 |
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Oahu Construction Boom Ending: What Excuse Will HART Use Next?
By UHERO @ 4:04 PM :: 6765 Views :: Honolulu County, Economy, Rail
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...number of significant condo and retail projects have wrapped up on Oahu, while fewer new buildings have broken ground, resulting in an overall reduction in construction activity and employment....
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Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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UHERO County Forecast: Economies Still Growing, But Slowing
By UHERO @ 11:59 PM :: 5242 Views :: Economy, Tourism
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Prospects are good for continued growth in each of Hawaii’s four counties, if at a slower pace than in recent years....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Hawaii economy begins Trump Era in fine form
By UHERO @ 4:38 PM :: 4028 Views :: Economy
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...the economic outlook for Hawaiʻi, which remains favorable, despite tremendous uncertainty about future U.S. policy....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 4373 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 |
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What are the Financial Benefits of a University of Hawaii Education?
By UHERO @ 6:54 PM :: 4578 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....
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Friday, March 10, 2017 |
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Is Hawaii's Hotel Room Tax Law Obsolete?
By UHERO @ 6:59 PM :: 4695 Views :: Taxes, Tourism
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With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....
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Friday, March 3, 2017 |
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UHERO Fears Trumpmonster: “Many things could go wrong in Washington”
By UHERO @ 3:51 PM :: 4212 Views :: Economy
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"...Trump and the Republican Congress could disrupt health care, government employment, and public services...."
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 7174 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Taxes
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...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 4721 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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How Many Tourists is Too Many?
By UHERO @ 2:15 AM :: 4462 Views :: Tourism
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Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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UHERO Adjusts Economic Forecast Upward Thanks to Trump
By UHERO @ 1:37 AM :: 4529 Views :: Economy
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...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Regulating Home-Share Rentals in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:08 AM :: 6054 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Tourism
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Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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UHERO Panic Attack: Trump More Dangerous than China
By UHERO @ 2:47 PM :: 4655 Views :: Economy
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...China (is not) as large a risk as the possibility of policy errors by the incoming Trump administration....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Desperately Seeking Housing in Honolulu
By UHERO @ 11:29 PM :: 4773 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...presentation for the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 2016 summit, "Still Houseless in Honolulu."....
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Saturday, November 19, 2016 |
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UHERO: Obama’s Recession Produced Greater Inequality in Health
By UHERO @ 11:25 PM :: 4093 Views :: Health Care
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...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....
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Saturday, October 1, 2016 |
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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TOU Pricing: A Cool New Way to Raise Your Electric Rates
By UHERO @ 10:13 PM :: 3841 Views :: Energy
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...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
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UHERO: How State Shares Transient Accommodation Tax With Counties
By UHERO @ 9:49 PM :: 4239 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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This paper examines Hawaii’s recent effort at developing a model to allocate the state’s transient accommodation tax....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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Variable Electric Pricing: What a Difference a Rate Makes
By UHERO @ 11:53 PM :: 4199 Views :: Energy
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...variable pricing of electricity, both wholesale and retail, can lower the cost of intermittent renewables....
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Monday, May 9, 2016 |
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UHERO: Hawaii Innovation Matters
By UHERO @ 9:17 PM :: 5380 Views :: Economy, Small Business
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Innovation is the key to economic growth and prosperity....
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 |
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UHERO Tries to Make Hi-Tech Tax Credits Look Good
By UHERO @ 3:01 AM :: 4462 Views :: Tax Credits
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"...innovation-oriented projects that improve the living standards of Hawaii residents...." LOL!
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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UHERO: Recent Trends in Hawaii's Green Economy: Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resource Management
By UHERO @ 5:55 PM :: 7768 Views :: Energy, Agriculture, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...three sectors that are key to future sustainability in Hawai‘i - energy, agriculture and natural resource management....
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Sunday, January 31, 2016 |
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UHERO: New Perspectives on Land and Housing Markets in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 12:03 AM :: 3527 Views
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...Honolulu’s inflation-adjusted land and housing prices have been highly volatile in the medium term since the 1960s....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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UHERO: Status Update on Federal GHG Emissions Reduction Policy for Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:16 PM :: 4384 Views :: Energy
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Under the CPP, states have been given the choice of meeting either a rate- or mass-based goal for their existing fleet of power plants....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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UHERO Hawaii Forecast: Expansion Will Continue, Despite Global Challenges
By UHERO @ 2:36 PM :: 4347 Views :: Economy
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Next year will see some easing of visitor growth....
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015 |
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Gauging Home Affordability: The Challenge
By UHERO @ 12:02 AM :: 4243 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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At a time of dwindling inventory and rising prices, housing affordability has once again become a hot topic in Hawaii....
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Saturday, November 7, 2015 |
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UHERO: Research Driven Energy Policy
By UHERO @ 8:59 PM :: 4230 Views :: Energy
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Take, for example, public discussion surrounding the potential merger of HECO and NextEra....
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Sunday, October 25, 2015 |
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Does PV Add Home Value?
By UHERO @ 1:15 PM :: 4352 Views :: Energy
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...PV already installed on a home is worth about $4,000 more than the median value of a PV permit....
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Friday, September 25, 2015 |
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UHERO: Tourism, Construction Lead Economy
By UHERO @ 4:41 PM :: 6320 Views :: Economy, Rail, Tourism
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Tourism is pushing toward new records, and the construction upswing is building in strength....
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