Ormat Technologies hopes to be drilling at least three exploration wells on the southwestern slope of Haleakala on Maui Island in Hawaii to determine the possibility of development on that location. Reported from Hawaii, Ormat Technologies is hoping to beginn drilling exploration wells on the island of Maui as early as next year to determine […]
Ormat’s Big Island Geothermal Release
From KITV News More than 20,000 Big Island households lost power late Wednesday afternoon when the Puna Geothermal Ventures Plant in Pahoa went offline. The Hawaii Electric Light Company says there was a fault on one of the transmission lines, which then released steam as part of a built-in safety system. Hazmat and fire teams […]
Maui Tomorrow DEIS Comments on Geothermal Project
March 27, 2012 Bill Sherman Ormat Technologies, Inc. 6225 Neil Road Reno, NV 89511 Ron Terry Geometrician Associates PO Box 396 Hilo, HI 96721 Carty Chang Hawaii State Board of Land and Natural Resources, P.O. Box 621 Honolulu, HI 96809 Comments on EISPN for Ulupalakua Geothermal Mining Lease and Geothermal Resource Subzone Modification Application Mahalo […]
Testimony Ormat Geothermal – Mayer
From: Professor (Emeritus) Dick Mayer March 23, 2012 dickmayer@earthlink.net Cell 808-283-4376 1111 Lower Kimo Dr. Kula, Maui, HI 96790 RE: Ulupalakua Geothermal Mining Lease and Geothermal Resource Subzone Modification Application (EISPN) Applicant: Ormat Technologies Inc., 6225 Neil Road, Reno, NV 89511. Contact: Bill Sherman, (775) 356-9029 Ext. 32232 Approving Authority: Hawai‘i State Board […]
Geothermal Test Well Slated for Early Next Year
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. Geothermal, as opposed to solar […]
Geothermal on Maui
On July 20, the all Native Hawaiian-owned company, Innovations Development Group (IDG), held a public meeting at Pukalani’s Mayor Hannibal Tavares Community Center, to “share their philosophy and get feedback from the community.” Geothermal got a bad rep when the early Puna well released hydrogen sulphide into the air, sickening residents. Mililani Trask gave a presentation […]