• MECO Roadblocks Residents’ Solar While Soliciting Big Renewable Projects (?!)

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

      MECO to bring in renewables, change gridMaui NewsKAHULUI – Renewable energy will be a big part of Maui Electric Co.’s future, with plenty of room for serious investors and partners, said outgoing President Ed Reinhardt. Near-term projects include plans to seek a developer to help produce between 20 …

  • Testimony Points Out Flaws in Olowalu EIS Facts/Assumptions

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

    Sierra Club Maui Group Aug 7, 2010PO BOX 791180Pa’ia, HI 96779 To: State Land Use CommissionPO Box 2359Honolulu, HI 96804Attention: Dan Davidson Re: Comments on EISPN for Proposed Olowalu Town Master PlanTMK (2) 4-8-003: 84, 98-118 and 124 Aloha Kakou Sierra Club Maui Group has been tracking proposed developments at

  • Seaward Services to Operate Superferries for US Navy

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

    Monday, March 19, 2012 http://www.marinelink.com/news/superferries-subsidiary343158.aspx   Seaward Services (SSI), a HMS Global Maritime (HMSGM) company based in New Albany, Indiana, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract through Military Sealift Command (MSC) to operate and convert the former Hawaii Superferry vessels HSV Alakai and Huakai for

  • Geothermal Test Well Slated for Early Next Year

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

    Ormat Technologies Inc., which operates the state’s only geothermal plant in the Puna District on Hawaii island,  said it hopes to begin drilling exploratory wells as early as next year to determine whether there are sufficient geothermal resources  on the southwestern slope of Haleakala for their proposed geothermal generating plant.

  • Workshop on U.S. Dept of Energy Funding Opportunities

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

    Take the survey and learn more about the workshop at the HREDV website. Workshop instructors are Jill Sims and Dawn Lippert from PICTHR at (808) 275-5051.

  • SB755 Testimony Needed Before Wed Mar 21

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 20, 2012

    SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE:http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=755 The House is planning a major ‘bait and switch’ amendment to SB 755 (originally dealing with playing internet poker!).  It would allow the governor and all the mayors to exempt projects from HRS 343.  A major part of the amendment is found hidden in “Part VI”.  Other

  • Mahalo For Your Testimony on the Maui Island Plan

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 16, 2012

    Mahalo to those who attended or send comments to the recent General Plan committee meeting on March 14. The Council Committee DID hear our message and adopted a chart of Growth Boundaries & land use planning forms that included “a separate, defined Country Town” designation, renamed as “small town” (this

  • Council Rejects Spence’s Revision of General Plan

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 15, 2012

    The General Plan Committee of the Maui County Council voted 8-0 to reject revisions to the directed growth element of the Maui Island Plan offered by Maui County Department of Planning Director Will Spence. The revision proposal stirred controversy because it removed the details which put “teeth” into the Maui

  • Testimony on Undersea Cable Bill (Pro and Con)

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 15, 2012

    Read pdf of testimony

  • Feds Take Oversight of Ocean Energy Projects

    Posted by Albert Perez on March 15, 2012

    The Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed under former President George Bush gives oversight of ocean energy technologies to the Federal government. Projects in Hawaii that could come under federal oversight include wave energy projects and the proposed interisland cable system. Hawaiian Electric Co. is currently working on putting in