The Right Combination: Solar, Storage, & Demand Response — Webinar Series
February 25–26, 2021
February 25–26, 2021
There have been several announcements about big new solar power projects this past week. Rather than try to tackle them one at a time (that wasn’t going to happen), I’m running through them below in a combo story.
Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) just named a new CEO and was voted as ‘Best Utility’ in the US by Utility Dive. What policies and progress has the utility made in recent years to grab this honor, what’s the new CEO going to do going forward, and what does this really look like for residents of the islands?
The Hawaii public utilities commission is considering new performance-based rules that will encourage utility companies to focus more on efficiency and investments in renewable energy.
Amber Kinetics and Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) announces the installation of the world’s first commercially available, four-hour flywheel energy storage system at a power generation site on Oahu, Hawaii.
How can we bring racial and social justice to the energy conversation? In this interview, CleanTechnica talks with Professor Shalanda Baker from the University of Hawaii at Manoa about how we have the opportunity to bring more justice and equality into the cleantech transition.
Hawaii’s clean energy goals are some of the most progressive in the country, and at the recent Verge Honolulu event, I got to listen to Governor David Ige explain how the state is meeting the target of 100% renewables by 2050.
HECO, the state’s dominant public utility, has a plan in place to achieve 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050. But recently, the company announced it foresees getting to that goal five years earlier than expected.
NextEra Energy is a very large company with about 14,000 employees that constructs, develops, and operates power plants. It has about 45,000 MW of generating capacity at all its facilities. A long process that could have resulted in NextEra taking over the Hawaiian electric utilities just ended with no merger … [continued]
Originally published on ilsr.org. Business as Usual No matter the path chosen, Hawai’i’s electricity will become more renewable over time, but the method makes a difference. One stark difference is where and how each island sources its renewable power. This is part three of Hawai’i at the Energy Crossroads, a report … [continued]