Energy

...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....

NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....

Deal after deal has fallen through...The Entergy Merger Failure....The Constellation Energy Merger Failure....

“It takes a lot of energy to extract and process solar-grade silicon,” says co-author Seth Darling. “And in China, that energy tends to come from dirtier and less efficient energy sources...."

The average price of the seven new solar projects is 14 cents per kilowatt-hour....

“Florida is not known for rooftop solar. It’s known for utility scale projects,” said Leslie Cole-Brooks, executive director, Hawaii Solar Energy Association....

“With this new contract, Hawaiian Electric will be purchasing approximately half our production volume...."

NextEra Energy, Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement under which the companies have agreed to combine....

For over a year, Hawaiian Electric has been claiming that the "green infrastructure fee" now beginning to appear on electric bills statewide is not a rate hike....

...Managing their own demand in response to utility requests is another way for customers to save on their electric bills while supporting more clean energy....

...to address operational issues associated with high degrees of distributed solar penetration on electrical grids....

The team estimates the new system will reduce electricity usage by more than all of the utility scale photovoltaic systems currently operating in Hawaii....

Democratic leaders in Washington should put job creation ahead of the ravings of environmental wing-nuts and their deep pocketed billionaire funders....

SunEdison to become world's largest renewable energy development company....

...far-reaching energy, trade and security implications....

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

"Distributed generation poses a threat under traditional ratemaking...."

A $150M Hawaii subprime lending scheme is receiving an “AAA-“ rating from Fitch because repayment is guaranteed by a surcharge on your electric bill....

...approved for interconnection after meeting the following conditions....

The renewable mandates make Hawaii more unaffordable and the mothballed interisland cable is yet another boondoggle....

“Solar energy comes and goes. You need something fast to fill the gaps.”

...in nine of the 10 states most reliant on wind power, electricity prices are rising at least five times faster than the national average....

...the UH survey did not ask about Natural Gas....

“All solutions which lower the cost of energy must be on the table,” said Aiona....

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

...The wind production tax credit, a generous $23 per-megawatt-hour tax credit the producer receives for 10 years, expired last year....

A Green Infrastructure Fee, which was previously approved by the PUC, will be used to secure the bonds....

...up to 200 megawatts of energy storage for Oahu....

...Leeds is pushing $500 a month with no way out for the next two decades....

...video surveillance cameras watch bats flying at night near wind turbines....

...state lawmakers are still concerned about the costs customers would have to pay in order to update their rooftop inverters....

This week’s illustration of how timing is important involves the Hawaii Renewable Energy Technologies credit....

From the point of view of shipping, there are several issues which will impinge on HECO’s planning to transition from liquid petroleum fuels to LNG....

...PUC rules give the utility authority to shut off the system and lock it to prevent interconnection....

...to help Hawaiian Electric meet more stringent federal Environmental Protection Agency air emission requirements known as Mercury and Air Toxics Standards....

...it took nearly a month for the ailing delegate to file a formal letter with Obama pleading with him not to take any action that would harm American Samoa....

...These islands may soon be able to diversify their energy sources to include natural gas, because of relatively low natural gas prices and new shipping technology....

...the CCA approach was discussed at the “Electric Utilities: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be” conference....

... the Navy is paying $0.44 per kwh ....

Under the programs, customers receive financial incentives for shifting energy use to certain times of the day....

...electricity prices in Hawaii are nearly double those in the state with the next highest prices because Hawaii generates 75% of its electricity from petroleum and must rely on Jones Act vessels for all domestic oil shipments....

Former Hawaii state Sen. Fred Hemmings says politicians allowing monopoly control of Hawaii's energy market are largely responsible for high costs....

KIUC’s rates decreased 1.6 percent since 2008. By comparison, rates on Oahu have risen 21.5 percent over the same period....

WalletHub -- 2014's Most & Least Energy-Expensive States.

...the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that offers billions of taxpayer dollars for development of fossil fuels in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico and other countries....

...Hawaii's power prices are among the highest in the nation as well. Not surprisingly, one of the big reasons for this is taxation....

Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, is being awarded $334,135,534 for firm-fixed-price task order....