Big Wind Community Meeting hosted by Pattern Energy June 21 at the Maunaloa Community Center, 5:30 – 7 p.m.; June 22
Life of the Land Wants Alternatives to Big Wind
HECO continues to promote TINA (There Is No Alternative) to Big Wind. HECO has even refused to evaluate alternatives that they themselves were advocating for just months ago. Life of the Land has filed a Motion to Intervene in PUC Docket 2011-0112. The docket was opened so that HECO could acquire nearly $4M of ratepayer […]
Urban Design Board to Hear Auwahi Wind Farm Road & Transmission Line
JUNE 7, 2011, TUESDAY
10:00 A.M.
Planning Department Conference Room
1st Floor, Kalana Pakui Building
250 South High Street
Status of Hawai’i Solar Incentives
Homeowners in Honolulu, Maui and Hawaii counties are no longer able to claim a $1,000 instant rebate for the installation of solar water heating systems because federal funding for the program has been exhausted. However, there is still a $750 rebate available to those who choose to finance their solar water heating systems with a […]
Kula Geothermal Briefing
Wednesday, May 25, at the Kula Community Center from
7pm -9pm the Kula Community Association’s General Meeting will
present speakers on the proposed upcountry geothermal well and
power station.
Maliko Gulch Hydro Dams???
Summarized and expanded from an article by Sophie Cocke of Pacific Business News United Power Corp. (also known as Hawaiian Interisland Renewables) which appears to be the construct of a California Engineer named Bart M. O’Keeffe, filed a preliminary permit for the project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (click to read application) under the […]