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The price of wind
Article from the Honolulu Star Advertiser A project in Kahuku enjoyed widespread support, but planned endeavors on Lanai and Molokai face opposition By Alan Yonan Jr. FIRST WIND LLC First Wind energy farms in Kahuku began supplying wind generated electricity to HECO last week. Larger wind farms on Lanai and Molokai are being proposed, but […]
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SB1363 to add fee to bags
See SB1363 Bill Status and language Environmental Protection; Plastic Checkout Bags; Fee Requires businesses in the State to collect a 5-cent fee for each single-use checkout bag provided to a customer. Allows for exemptions. Provides for fees to be deposited in the general fund. Requires fees to be collected on paper bags in counties that […]
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OWIS Study on Wind Farms
Oahu Wind Integration Study (OWIS) conducted by the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, General Electric and the Hawaiian Electric Company found the following: Using state-of-the-art wind power forecasting to help anticipate the amount of power that will be available from wind. Increasing power reserves to help manage wind variability […]
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HB 1239 – State Financed Superferry
House Bill 1239 (Senate Bill SD1), would require that the State buy and operate a “High Speed Ferry Vessel”. It next goes to the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee for funding. Ways and Means Committee: Chair David Ige (Email sendige@Capitol.hawaii.gov) Vice-Chair Michelle Kidani (Email senkidani@capitol.hawaii.gov) Suzanne Chun Oakland, Donovan M. Dela Cruz, J. Kalani English, […]
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Sink state-run superferry idea
Honolulu Star Advertiser POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 25, 2011 State legislators skeptically backed away from ordering a study last year about the wisdom of launching a state-sponsored multi-island ferry system. They are now on the brink of falling overboard by creating a framework of such a system without a study. Some people are under […]
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Geothermal on Ulapalakua Ranch?
Geothermal Generation at Ulupalakua? by Karen Chun Maui is blessed with abundant renewable energy resources such as wind and sun. But some of these sources are “nonfirm” or not “dispatchable” meaning that they can fluctuate or quit producing altogether at certain times and the utility cannot increase or decrease electricity generation to match the needs […]
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Thielan: HECO wants to socialize cable cost, privatize any profit
By Rep. Cynthia Thielen POSTED: Mar 24, 2011 Honolulu Star Advertiser If the majority of the lawmakers and Hawaiian Electric Co. get their way under Senate Bill 367 — the bill designed to finance an interisland cable — the Oahu ratepayer will be solely responsible for the cost of the project, predicted to cost somewhere […]
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March 4 Your Right to Know: GMOs
This Saturday, March 26, 2011: Rally for the Right to Know [About GMOs in Our Food]! Thanks to a trio of hard-working, un-funded, all-volunteer Millions Against Monsanto organizers, Trish Wright, Erica Gray and April Reeves, Rallies for the Right to Know are happening across the country this Saturday, March 26, 2011. Maui will participate with […]
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Mayor Submits Budget
March 23, 2011 Maui Time “This is not a budget of fluff and extravagance but one of necessity,” Mayor Arakawa announced as he presented his plan for the 2012 fiscal year to the County Council last week. Arakawa said he got the draft budget to the Council a week early in an effort to “help […]
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Maui County Board Nominees
The County Council Policy Committee recommended approval of the following appointments. The Maui County Council will vote on these 9 a.m. Tuesday March 29 * Affirmative Action Advisory Council. Lilah Inaba. * Board of Code Appeals. Thomas Behnke. * Board of Ethics. Sydney Kikuchi. * Board of Water Supply. William Kamai. * Civil Service Commission. […]
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