Maui’s Energy Future – Community Meeting

Wed, July 20, 2011 @ 6:30PM Hannibal Tavares Center Pukalani WHAT: The third in a series of community forums and information sessions on geothermal development in Hawaii. The event will…

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Pattern Energy Deal Blocked by PUC

From the Star Advertiser: The Public Utilities Commission ordered Hawaiian Electric Co. Thursday to seek new bidders to develop half of the large-scale wind energy project proposed for…

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Proposed Kula PV facility

Moses Medeiros,of Applied Technical Services in Kihei, told the Maui News that he is consulting on a project to explore building a 30-acre PV with low-profile, mini wind turbines …

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Governor Signs House Bill 1520

Governor Abercrombie signed House Bill 1520.  This bill is intended to help more homeowners and renters access and afford clean energy by allowing them to pay for the cost of…

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Star Advertiser: Open Books on Big Wind

Open the books on wind-energy plans Editorial in the Star Advertiser July 13, 2011 Few issues brought before the state Public Utilities Commission have deserved as much scrutiny as the…

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More Big Wind Acrimony

Star Advertiser Opinion Piece written by Jay Fidell, of ThinkTech Hawaii, a digital media company that reports on Hawaii’s tech and…

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Mike Bond Responds to Pattern Energy

Maui Tomorrow is fostering discussion on the Big Wind Project by reprinting this article by Mike Bond of I Aloha Moloka’i: As the Pattern Energy opinion piece (Hawaii well-suited for…

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Pattern Energy Responds to IAM

Written by David Parquet of Pattern Energy in the Star Advertiser Energy experts have shown, in numerous publicly available studies, that Big Wind can help Hawaii achieve 40…

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OTEC Being Revived

After a successful 1979 demonstration project using Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (exploiting ocean temperature differences to generate firm power), dropping oil prices cause interest in OTEC to wane. OTEC is…

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Maui County & Life of the Land Intervene in HECO Case

The Public Utilities Commission granted Maui County and Life of the Land intervenor status in the review of Hawaiian Electric Co.’s proposal to charge customers for a $4 million…

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