Funny it doesn't mention that in many area of Hawaii it is illegal to connect rooftop solar to the grid. People want it but are being forced into off grid solar because the utility is taking such a conservative approach and caps Pv at such a low level (compared to what Germany is doing, for example). I wonder if they'd have more renewables if they actually didn't keep fighting them...
Z On Friday, July 11, 2014, Darryl McMahon <dar...@econogics.com> wrote: > http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2014/07/10/ > hawaiian-electric-gets-just-14-of-energy-from.html > > [Long ago in business school, we called this "an opportunity".] > > Jul 10, 2014, 2:50pm HST Updated: Jul 10, 2014, 3:06pm HST Hawaiian > > Electric gets 86% of energy from oil and coal > > Duane Shimogawa > > While the talk about energy in Hawaii has mostly focused on renewables > such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biofuels, the state’s largest > electric utility still gets the majority of its energy from non-renewable > sources such as oil and coal, to the tune of about 86 percent, according to > 2013 figures released by the company. > > The Hawaiian Electric Cos., which consist of Hawaiian Electric on Oahu, > Hawaii Light Electric Co. on the Big Island and Maui Electric Co., got > about 13.7 percent of its electricity from renewable sources with wind > leading the way at about 5.3 percent. > > Solid waste, mostly from Honolulu's H-Power plant, accounted for about 4 > percent and geothermal on the Big Island accounted for about 3 percent. > > Solar, biofuel, biomass, hydro and solar amounted to less than a half > percent of the total. > > On Oahu, the largest consumer of energy in the state, about 92 percent of > its electricity comes from non-renewables such as oil and coal, with about > 7.7 percent coming from renewables. > > Solid waste accounted for 5 percent of the total, followed by wind [1.7 > percent], biofuel [0.4 percent] and solar [0.4 percent]. > > Hawaiian Electric pointed out several highlights in 2013, including the > City and County of Honolulu’s H-Power expansion, First Wind’s 30-megawatt > Kahuku Wind farm that got back up to full power after a fire at its battery > energy storage facility shut it down and its own plans to develop a > 15-megawatt solar photovoltaic system at its Kahe Power Plant. > > Some of this year’s highlights include the collaboration with the U.S. > Army to build a 50-megawatt power plant at Schofield Barracks, which is > scheduled to be running in 2017, the Hawaii Department of Transportation’s > 8-megawatt biofueled emergency power plant at Honolulu International > Airport and ongoing negotiations with nine solar facility developers that > would add about 240 megawatts of power. > _______________________________________________ > Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list > Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org > http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > _______________________________________________ Sustainablelorgbiofuel mailing list Sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org http://lists.eruditium.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
