According to Pacific Business News, HECO is not including the interisland electric cable in their new plan. According to the article gubernatorial candidate, Duke Aiona, says he supports the undersea cable. Maui Electric Power Supply Improvement Plan Hawai’i Electric Light Power Supply Improvement Plan Hawaiian Electric Power Supply Improvement Plan Hawaiian Electric Companies’ Distributed Generation […]
NextEra Purchasing Undersea Cable Land
From Pacific Business News:NextEra Energy, one of the companies looking to build an undersea cable that would connect the electric grids on Oahu and Maui, has an agreement to purchase the nearly four-acre site of the former Gasco manufactured-gas facility in Honolulu.
Kula Community Association presentsMaui’s Electricity Future – it may NOT be what it used to be:An Undersea Cable to Oahu and Maui’s Electricity Future Upcountry Community Meeting at the Kula Community CenterThis Wednesday, February 19, 20146:30pm Pupus — 7pm Program The program will begin with Maui Electric’s Mat McNeff giving an update on the status […]
ShakeUp and Lawsuit Delay Bio-Logical Capital’s purchase of Hana Land
According to Pacific Business News, Bio-Logical Capital head of operations Guy Kaulukukui, (former deputy director of DLNR) is leaving the company after a year and a half. Bio-logical is trying to buy thousands of Hana Ranch land for $35 million and, in partnership with Pattern Energy, has a wind project ready to send to the […]
Interisland Cable Meeting
Is the interisland electric cable in the public interest?
Henry Curtis: History of Interisland Cable
From Ililani Media … By 1982 the U.S. Department of Energy had concluded that an interisland electric line was necessary to transmit geothermal power to the other islands. Hawaiian Electric Company became the prime contractor, and the utility picked Parsons Hawaii as the systems integration manager. The State considered and rejected the idea of conducting […]