A university in Hawaii is launching into phase two of a big solar project on its campus, and when completed, it should mean that the university is getting 100% of its electric from solar power. Actually, the clean solar electricity will go even beyond that. The university is Brigham Young … [continued]
CleanTechnica produced the first ever Electric Home Show at the Blaisdell Expo Hall in Honolulu, HI, in April this year. It was … fun AF. As sustainability truly is. There were about 75 eco-friendly vendors ranging from EV/hybrid repair shops to ebike vendors to farm-to-table restaurants to solar to battery … [continued]
Hawaii is a fascinating story in the clean energy transition. Isolated, but with abundant natural resources, the islands have a unique blend of opportunity, incredibly high prices of electricity made by imported fuels, and a historic reliance on fossil fuels, the result of path dependency and short-term solutions. The state … [continued]
One of the best climate and environmental communicators of the last few decades, Bill McKibben, will be speaking at our Electric Home Show in Hawaii this weekend. To be honest, I wasn’t keen on promoting this much in advance, because the event is focused on helping people who live in … [continued]
If you actually head over to the BLUETTI website, there’s an enormous range of portable power products you can buy, for all sorts of needs and all sorts of people. One thing that hit me recently is how much these really do cut the use of polluting fossil fuels. In … [continued]
The newly published white paper began with a question that persisted because of how clearly island systems expose the realities of energy. Can Hawaiʻi, an isolated archipelago with no continental grid behind it and a long dependence on imported fuels, build an energy system that is cleaner, more resilient, more … [continued]
Originally published on Ililani Media, Life of the Land, by Henry Curtis Bill McKibben has spent forty years warning the world about the climate crisis. He co-founded 350.org and Third Act — an organization mobilizing Americans over sixty for progressive change — and has written bestsellers including The End of … [continued]
Hawaiʻi’s LNG turn was sold as a practical answer to a practical problem. The state has high electricity prices, aging oil-fired generation, isolated island grids, and political pressure to cut bills without creating reliability problems. HSEO’s January 2025 alternative fuels study was built around that frame. It was focused on … [continued]
Cutting imported fuel use can lower Hawaiʻi’s energy bills, reduce volatility, and keep billions of dollars circulating inside the local economy.
Iran and the Strait of Hormuz are not abstractions for Hawaiʻi. They are a reminder that the state still buys its energy from global fuel markets it does not control. The International Energy Agency described 2022 as the first truly global energy crisis, and recent reporting on the Gulf shock … [continued]
Naturally, just when Hawaiʻi’s decarbonization pathway starts to look complete, another chapter occurs to me. After the generation mix, the island-by-island resource story, the transport implications, and the logic of electrification, what remains is the part of the energy transition that fossil systems used to provide almost by accident. Hawaiʻi … [continued]
