In today’s piece of awesome cleantech news, courtesy of CleanTechnica, we are proud to announce that in collaboration with Hawaii Energy and the Energy Excelerator, our company, Pono Home, just kicked off a project to retrofit up to 5,000 homes for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA).
Energy and water conservation programs at the municipal, utility, and state levels come in many shapes and sizes. Some are effective, others less so, and predicting a program’s success seems an elusive mixture of art and science. Dr. Doug McKenzie Mohr, a behavioral scientist studying conservation programs for the last … [continued]
Releasing a report on the ‘Big Island’ of Hawai’i’s geothermal energy resources, local and state government leaders agreed that the island and island state should aim to rely on local, renewable resources for 100% of its energy needs. While Hawai’i Island continues to pay more than $1 billion a year to import oil, the report’s authors found that Hawai’i Island’s geothermal resources have the capacity to meet the island’s energy needs several times over.
