Entries for 'UHERO'

...if prices stay this low, it will take up to four months before electricity prices fully reflect the drop in oil prices....

The drop in crude oil prices from $112/ barrel in June of 2014 to $46/barrel today will, if sustained, provide a nice boost to Hawaii’s economy....

...The latest installment in the UHERO dashboard project is packed with information on the cost of travel to Hawaii from the US mainland....

Including indirect and induced benefits and adjusting for inter-county feedback and spillover effects, the astronomy sector had a total impact of $167.86 million statewide....

...to estimate the impacts of Hawaii importing LNG for use in the electric sector....

Weak tourism and federal downsizing are holding down growth.  Construction has disappointed this year....

Under the current rate structure, DG providers are providing “cheap” electricity while consuming “expensive” electricity....

...and no other sector has yet emerged to provide offsetting stimulus....

...Kauai’s economy only returned to pre-Iniki levels 7-8 years after the storm....

The removal of and protection against “bad” and "ugly" natural capital such as invasive plants and feral animals....

...the share of income going to the “Dominant Class” increases while the share going to the “Lower Class” decreases steadily from the mid 1950s up to the present....

Last year’s tourism weakness continued in the first quarter of this year, and incremental gains for 2014 will be slight....

...HECO released an RFP in March for 800,000 tons of containerized LNG per year over 15 years, beginning in 2016 or 2017....

...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....

This calculator should help you to decide how large of a system to install and maybe help you comparison shop across solar providers....

...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....

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

New condo towers in Kakaako are spurring double-digit growth in permits for residential construction. A sharp rise in commercial construction, much of it in resort areas, is on the horizon....

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

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

Drawdown of existing groundwater stocks is likely still decades away....

Our projections for 2014 growth have been marked down....

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

On the 50th anniversary of the ‘War on Poverty’, poverty and income inequality are major policy issues ....

...the bottom line is that things might not be what they seem....

...impacts on gross state product are estimated to be negative (up to -$63 million)....

The developed world has continued to perform below potential this year .... 

This UHERO 101 intends to clarify some of the rate and policy aspects of PV in Hawai‘i, and explores the two opposite driving forces of PV adoption....

While an untrammeled water market would fail to provide the optimal solution, regulators can facilitate efficient water trading by setting appropriate exchange rates....

A controversial new method to manage fisheries is to assign “catch shares”....

...the vast majority of installations are demanded by households with the median income and higher....

...impacts to gross state product are negative (up to -$63 million)....

Growth is holding up in Hawaii, driven by still-strong tourism and rising construction....

There are about 34,000 civilian federal jobs in Hawaii, a fraction of which were deemed essential....

The Hawaii Jobs Explorer, the first interactive tool to be released as a part of the ongoing UHERO Dashboard Project, is now available for public use....

The authors attribute the reduction in crime to two factors. The first is a lack of "concentration" allowing for less opportunity to engage in criminal activity, and the second is possibly increased monitoring by parents....

Ecological non-use benefits and the costs of eradication and control programs are often difficult to quantify....

UHERO's ongoing research is looking at ways to cost-effectively achieve GHG reduction and meet the state's clean energy goals....

Honolulu City Council member Ron Menor has introduced a resolution to amend city policy on household income thresholds for affordable for-sale and/or rental housing....

Hawaii has 750 linear miles of coastline....

The same author in 2011 made the same type of claims in the run-up to Civil Unions....

both of the objectives mentioned by the US Energy Secretary are harder to achieve in Hawai‘i....