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Sunday, June 3, 2018 |
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After Decades of Hysteria--Lava Covers Geothermal Well-AND NOTHING HAPPENS!
By Selected News Articles @ 6:20 PM :: 4274 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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...Neither well is expected to release any hydrogen sulfide....
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Saturday, June 2, 2018 |
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Lava Covers Four Corners, Hundreds of Homes Cut off
By News Release @ 8:21 PM :: 11052 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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...Residents of Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland are isolated due to lava inundation of Beach Road at Four Corners....
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018 |
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Who is Driving Electric Vehicles in Hawaii?
By UHERO @ 9:42 PM :: 4784 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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...An analysis of factors that affect EV adoption in Hawaii....
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Friday, May 18, 2018 |
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BLNR Approves Another Windfarm for Kahuku
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 3608 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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...BLNR has given the greenlight to Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings LLC’s Na Pua Makani Power Partners LLC’s plans to build a 25-megawatt wind farm near Kahuku....
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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 :: 3916 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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Wednesday, May 2, 2018 |
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GEM$ Launches On-Bill Financing for Solar
By News Release @ 6:39 PM :: 3863 Views :: Energy
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...money can be transferred directly from your electric bill to needy Silicon Valley billionaires....
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 |
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Hawaii Electric Utilities Get Prize for Giving Money to Elon Musk
By News Release @ 4:32 PM :: 4608 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...Largely due to the Tesla solar-plus-storage facility that opened in March 2017, KIUC added 415.3 watts of storage per customer in 2017, more than eight times as much storage as second place honoree Tucson Electric Power....
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Monday, April 23, 2018 |
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Bought and Paid For: Russian Oil Money Flows to US Anti-Fracking Protesters
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:03 PM :: 6088 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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...From 2010 through 2015, the Sierra Club Foundation received more than $18 million and Natural Resources Defense Council received more than $15 million....
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 |
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On Holiest Day, Hawaiian Electric Renews Pledge of Obedience to Eco Religion
By News Release @ 2:36 AM :: 4443 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...this can only mean one thing--more rate hikes coming....
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 |
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Green Energy Plan: $2.3B Tax and Rate Hike to Send Even More Money to Elon Musk
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 9032 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use, Tax Credits, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...Over the past 15 years, the people of Hawaii have paid 260% more for electricity than the US average, while gasoline prices consistently hover close to $1-per-gallon higher. (But we can go even higher)....
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Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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Honolulu Among U.S. Solar Leading Cities in New Report
By News Release @ 2:09 AM :: 3534 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Each year, the survey ranks nearly 70 of the nation’s major cities by megawatts of solar energy....
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Friday, March 30, 2018 |
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HECO Plans to Transfer More of Your Money to Elon Musk
By News Release @ 6:26 PM :: 3441 Views :: Energy
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...Broad economic, environmental benefits described in electrification of transportation 'roadmap'....
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: Ige Names Green Energy Maven to PUC
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 3194 Views :: Energy
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...your green is burned to create their energy....
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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Taxpayers and Ratepayers Forced to Fund HECO Flywheel Scheme
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 4908 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Notice that they never mention the Cost?....
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Sunday, March 11, 2018 |
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KIUC Board Election Results
By News Release @ 3:36 PM :: 4393 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...Newly-elected director Janet L. Kass will join incumbent directors David Iha and Teofilo Phil Tacbian who have been re-elected....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Oahu LED Street Light Conversion Project set to begin
By News Release @ 12:51 PM :: 6086 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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...converting approximately 53,500 city-owned street lights to more energy efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lights....
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Friday, March 2, 2018 |
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Russia Behind Protests Against Dakota Access Pipeline
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:04 PM :: 5812 Views :: Energy, GMOs
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...tag-team efforts of Russian trolls and ‘keep it in the ground’ activists....
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Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
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Auditor: Hawaii PUC Another Tech Disaster in the Making
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:17 AM :: 5065 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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...the PUC’s $2.8 million Document Management System (DMS) is almost universally considered by management and staff to be difficult to use, unreliable, slow, and obsolete, with staff developing elaborate workarounds to accommodate for the system’s shortcomings. Yet the PUC has no firm plans to fix or replace this problematic system....
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Saturday, February 17, 2018 |
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Hawaii: Highest Electric Rates, Lowest Consumption
By News Release @ 12:35 PM :: 5269 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Electricity prices are highest in Hawaii but due to low consumption, expenditures are 'only' 4th highest in the USA....
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Saturday, February 10, 2018 |
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Hawaiian Electric Companies Claims 27% Renewable for 2017
By News Release @ 4:31 AM :: 4022 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics
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...Meanwhile: While Most States Clean Up, Hawaii CO2 Emissions Rise Since '08....
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Saturday, February 10, 2018 |
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Hawaiian Electric: $36M Rate Hike
By News Release @ 4:24 AM :: 4301 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...The bill impact of the interim rate is expected to be reduced by the application of anticipated corporate tax savings that are the result of the new federal tax law that took effect on Jan. 1, 2018....
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Friday, February 9, 2018 |
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Will Indonesia's new shipping law impact Hawaii coal imports?
By Michael Hansen @ 8:06 PM :: 4965 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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...new regulations in October 2016 requiring coal and raw palm oil exporters to ship on Indonesian flag ships....
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Thursday, February 8, 2018 |
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Jones Act leads to surreptitious imports of Russian LNG
By Michael Hansen @ 11:01 PM :: 5809 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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...a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) was surreptitiously imported into the United States on January 28, 2018 at Boston, Massachusetts, in apparent violation of sanctions....
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Friday, January 26, 2018 |
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DoE to Display Classroom Temperatures Online
By News Release @ 1:04 AM :: 4403 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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...HIDOE's Thermal Comfort website features data collected from weather stations and indoor monitoring sensors at Hawaii's public schools....
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Friday, January 19, 2018 |
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Congressional Letter: Kona Resident Funnels Russian Millions to Sierra Club
By Selected News Articles @ 12:45 AM :: 10454 Views :: Energy, Environment, Ethics
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...Russian money flowing to Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, 350.org, the Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, the Rainforest Action Network....
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Friday, January 12, 2018 |
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Study: Hawaii Most Expensive Electric Car Ownership in USA
By News Release @ 1:12 AM :: 6011 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...The current average annual cost of driving a typical new gasoline vehicle in the United States is $1,117, with a maximum of $1,509 in Hawaii and a minimum of $993 in Alabama....
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 |
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Republican Tax Cuts Will Lower Hawaii Electric Bills
By News Release @ 11:44 PM :: 5130 Views :: Energy, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...State and federal taxes are included in the base electric rate and with a lower federal tax, the tax rate imbedded in the bill will be reduced....
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 |
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Sunday, January 7, 2018 |
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GEMS Takes One on the Chin from the PUC
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 6229 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...the PUC has basically said that it expects the program to crash and burn....
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Saturday, January 6, 2018 |
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KIUC Nominating Committee Confirms Six Candidates
By News Release @ 9:39 PM :: 4630 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...six candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....
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Thursday, January 4, 2018 |
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Auditors couldn't figure out what this state office does — or plans to do
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:16 AM :: 6247 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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...Energy Office’s personnel costs now account for more than 90 percent of the office’s expenses....
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Saturday, December 30, 2017 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules Public has Property Right to a Clean Environment
By Robert Thomas @ 7:23 PM :: 7200 Views :: Energy, Environment, Land Use
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...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Nominations Open for KIUC Elections
By News Release @ 2:33 PM :: 4676 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Nominating Committee has selected five candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Mayors commit to Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles by 2045
By News Release @ 10:39 PM :: 5792 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Monday, December 4, 2017 |
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Lalamilo: Big Island Wind Farm Wants Permit to Kill Bats, Petrels
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 4953 Views :: Energy, Environment
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...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an application from the Lalamilo Wind Company LLC for an incidental take permit of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel....
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Friday, December 1, 2017 |
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Energy: Reduced Budget Produces Increased Efficiency
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 3347 Views :: Energy
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...These two factors combined mean Hawai‘i Energy operated at its most efficient, lowest cost of acquired savings ever....
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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 :: 3403 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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Saturday, November 25, 2017 |
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017 |
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Rate Hike Coming: UH, HECO Conspire to Establish 'Green Tariff'
By News Release @ 4:59 PM :: 4838 Views :: Energy, Higher Education
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...Lower energy costs to UH with HECO picking up the transmission tab means higher electric rates for consumers--just as has happened with rooftop solar....
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017 |
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HECO Biofuel Contract—$7.69 per gallon
By News Release @ 3:34 AM :: 7187 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...Last year biodiesel represented 2 percent of HECO’s oil and diesel consumption. (Translation: Its an expensive fig leaf for diesel plants.)....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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State Capitol Signs up for Non-Existent Seawater Air Conditioning Scheme
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 4691 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government
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...a seawater jet powered by Hawaii tax credits is used to shoot pies up into the sky--electricity is generated by harnessing the energy of the pies as they fall back to Earth....
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Monday, October 30, 2017 |
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Hurricane? FEMA has a Plan for Hawaii and You Can See it Here
By Selected News Articles @ 1:30 AM :: 4831 Views :: Energy, Military
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...The Hawaii plan includes granular details down to, for example, how many specially outfitted medical aircraft the federal government would send to Hawaii after a Category 4 hurricane. It also describes an 85-step process to restore electricity....
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Saturday, October 28, 2017 |
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Audit: City Loses $36.5M by Not Recycling Paper and Plastic into Electricity
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 6438 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Environment
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... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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DBEDT Community Forums on Electric Utility Ownership Models
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 4193 Views :: Energy
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...The Hawaii legislature has directed the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) to undertake a study on the future of utility ownership models on each island in Hawaii....
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Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
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Hawaii Braces for High Costs of Renewable Energy Mandates
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 PM :: 6241 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 4921 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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"One thousand classrooms now have air conditioning, and over 300 more will be complete by the end of September. In addition, hundreds more have been cooled using other heat abatement strategies,” Gov. Ige said....
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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HEI to Burn $205M Helping Tax Credit Scammers Make More Money on Alt Energy
By News Release @ 3:26 AM :: 4828 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions. He expects to be repaid....
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