Energy

The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) Nominating Committee has confirmed 11 candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 8, 2014....

HECO enjoys full revenue decoupling, fuel and purchased power pass-through recovery, rates based on forward test years...and recovery of increases in certain operating expenses and capital investments between rate cases through riders....

... why should an ever-expanding list of business risks be transferred from the utility to its customers? ....

Today, riskier investments appear to improve public pension funding. Current accounting rules mean that riskier investments are given higher expected rates of return....

OTEC is allegedly building a sea-water air conditioning system for downtown Honolulu.

...in the event the commission receives evidence that the Disciplinary Board of the Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a ruling which disqualifies Mr. Caliboso, the commission intends to re-visit the issue....

When the PTC was last extended, in January 2013, Congress changed the criteria. A project only had to be in construction before the expiration date to be eligible for the tax credit....

The renewable energy projects presented in this directory are demonstrating progress in becoming commercial enterprises....

Beginning January 1, 2014, the federal government will ban the use of 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent light bulbs....

...wastes productive land, wastes taxpayer funds, and lies about sustainable green jobs....

Because HELCO's renewable energy generation output is in excess of the statutory forty percent, HELCO must demonstrate that the project provides cost reduction benefits to ratepayers....

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

The Clinton Global Initiative recognized WEfficiency as a change-making commitment. And of course: Money shower!....

...to design, manage and install energy efficiency measures that will upgrade facilities, reduce energy usage by about 49 percent and with additional operational improvements save a total of $518 million at 12 state-operated airports....

A barrel of Brent currently changes hands for $109; WTI fetches just $98; HECO pays $132....

If you feel like you’re not paying enough, you’re in luck....

...FERC oversees all permits for hydropower plans. The process is so onerous that license-seekers sometimes have to obtain permits from up to 25 different agencies. It can take years....

Recent confidential negotiations between Molokai Ranch, California wind developer Princeton Energy, Maui County and Maui Electric Company, however, have cast doubt....

U.S. energy policy should be changed to reflect its newfound energy abundance....

The quotes below are a sample of the responses I received to part 1 ....

It is easy to manipulate the numbers when it comes to talking about subsidies....

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....

Hawaiian Electric is helping customers whose rooftop photovoltaic (PV) installations were underway in September when the utility revised its interconnection procedures....

The United States will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2015, and be close to energy self-sufficiency in the next two decades, amid booming output from shale formations....

...thanks to Senator Schatz’s flawed advocacy, our electricity costs will increase....

“If you heard the message as, ‘Your bill is going to drop,’ those people feel a sense of disappointment,” said Doug McLeod, Maui County’s energy commissioner....

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

The lawsuit states that a second fire—also previously described by First Wind management as ‘small’--resulted in $2,000,000 in damages....

85 percent  believe efforts should be made to make renewable energy such as solar power more affordable for consumers....

United States has reduced more carbon dioxide emissions this century than any other nation. The U.S. emissions decline is due in large part to technological advances in natural gas production ....

Once again, Abercrombie tells Hawaii refineries to 'drop dead'....

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

About 10 percent of KIUC’s 30,000 customers have opted out of the smart meter program....

A few short years ago, many analysts argued that oil was nearly tapped out and America needed to plan for a post-petroleum future.  What's changed? In a word: fracking....

The net cost of electricity that will be generated by the array will be at 10 cents and 13.5 cents per kilowatt hour....

...magnesium melts at 1202 degrees Fahrenheit and antimony melts at 1166 degrees Fahrenheit.....

The revolution will not be televised, but on television last night, the RevoluSun was not blacked out....

Molokai Ranch, CEO, Clay Rumboa accompanied by Ranch Staff and the Ranch’s new developer, Princeton Energy Group based in San Francisco, California,  presented ....

...between 4.9 million and 6.1 million pounds of radioactive waste were created to make these wind turbines....

The increase in their stock prices has raised his net worth by more than $5 billion over the past year....

A solar vendor is telling prospective customers that it has a "special arrangement" with Hawaiian Electric....

This level of savings is equivalent to a 20-year power purchase agreement with a price of 14.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.  This compares to 8.9 cents per kwh RETAIL in Washington State....

Here's the Response to Application for Writ of Certiorari by the State of Hawaii, which opposes the State's cert app....

As the federal budget debate continues to heat up, one of the contentious energy policy battles is over the extension of the wind production tax credit....

On September 6, 2013, HECO announced a change to  its rules for connecting new PV systems to the electricity grid....

The rub is that here, it is the State of Hawaii that is claiming the interest, the right to mineral and metallic mines (including geothermal rights) on several large parcels....