PUC smacks HECO over solar

Read the PUC press release here. The PUC rejected the HECOCompanies’ Integrated Resource Plan submission and is going to impose their own plan on HECO.  They directed the HECO…

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Life of the Land’s Comments on State Energy Plan

In the past few years the rate of solar installations in Hawai`i has doubled each year. The HECO utilities experienced peak energy use in 2004. Since then the demand…

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Interisland Cable/Renewable Energy EIS Public Testimony

Amended Notice of Intent under the National Environmental Policy Act to Prepare the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement In 2010, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced…

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DOE Solicits Comments on Hawai’i Clean Energy PEIS

From: Jane Summerson,  the Federal Document Manager representing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the re-scoped Hawai‘i Clean Energy Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.  As you are likely aware, DOE…

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