Energy

...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....

...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....

..."A search of the world wide web reveals that no media source covered the event."....

...the PUC has basically said that it expects the program to crash and burn....

...six candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....

...Energy Office’s personnel costs now account for more than 90 percent of the office’s expenses....

...Does the Supreme Court now have three votes to kill the telescope?....

...The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Nominating Committee has selected five candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....

...Chaos is Coming: You can sue too—Here are some ideas....

...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....

...global warming is just an excuse for tax hikes and rate hikes....

...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....

...These two factors combined mean Hawai‘i Energy operated at its most efficient, lowest cost of acquired savings ever....

...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....

...Plan to kill 41 Nene and 48 bats....

...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....

...Last year biodiesel represented 2 percent of HECO’s oil and diesel consumption. (Translation: Its an expensive fig leaf for diesel plants.)....

...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....

...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....

... cost-benefit comparison of recycling selected materials versus incinerating them at H-POWER ....

...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....

...HECO has acknowledged rates could rise by more than 44 percent when PSIP is fully implemented....

"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....

...There's a sucker born every minute....

...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions.  He expects to be repaid....

...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....

...Hawaiian Electric Company will host a public meeting on Monday, Aug. 7, at McKinley High School....

...Hawaii ranks 37th in monthly energy cost....

“Regarding our ability to retrieve energy, we don’t need anybody. Transportation may be our biggest impediment.”

The noise generated by wind turbines affected the sonar that whales use to navigate, causing them to beach themselves....

...Hawaii also stood out as having one of the lowest average home size of all states.... 

"The department has made every effort to find solutions to cooling our classrooms in ways that are not only cost-efficient but also energy efficient..."

...More sweetheart contracts to buy overpriced electricity from campaign contributors....

...fifteen senators wanted to stick their thumbs in the Governor’s eye....

...policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures....

...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....