EPA – Shut Down Older, Dirty Coal Plants

Will this impact the Pu’unene Coal fired generator? Details of new EPA regulations, released Thursday, mandate reductions in power-plant emissions. ‘Old, decrepit plants’ without pollution controls must shut down, which…

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Gov Hints at Big Wind Military Tie-in

According to a Civil Beat article written by Robin Kaye of Friends of Lana’i: The Governor then confirmed what many on Lana’i have long feared (but which has…

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First Wind Celebrates Kaheawa Wind

From a press release: First Wind and its partner Makani Nui Associates have celebrated the five-year anniversary of successful commercial operations of their 30 MW Maui-based Kaheawa Wind Power I…

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HECO Claims They Can Start Inter-island Cable

Pacific Business News is reporting: Hawaiian Electric Co. can issue a request for proposal for an undersea cable even though legislation authorizing the RFP failed to pass this…

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Smart Grid Test Project in Maui Meadows

James Griffin of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute spoke at MCC saying: “Maui is already a leader, but the grid here is limited,” he said. “Fluctuations for renewable energies is…

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I Aloha Moloka’i Press Release

The anti “Big Wind” organization, I Aloha Moloka’i has issued this press release. Big Wind May Soon Give up on Molokai News Release from www.IAlohaMolokai.com June 29, 2011 AFTER THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS…

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Broadband Attached to Big Wind Cable?

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed a bill into law to temporarily exempt the development of broadband infrastructure from state and county permitting requirements. The law allows for permitting exemptions…

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Undersea Cable Route?

Reproduced from an editorial by Artice Swingle of I Aloha Moloka’i in the Moloka’i Dispatch

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Pattern Isn’t Backing Down

Extracts from Pacific Business News Pattern “Energy stays committed to wind farm“ (I Aloha Moloka’i disputes Pattern’s low meeting attendance numbers that are quoted in this article.) Despite a series…

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More Coverage of Moloka’i Big Wind Meeting

Moloka’i Dispatch is reporting that jobs from Big Wind on Moloka’i will only be about ten or twenty local jobs and that virtually all the jobs created…

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