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Dive Brief: Hawaiian Electric (HECO) is defending its role in ongoing and potential delays to planned renewables projects that are key to Hawaii's longer-term clean energy goals, following the state Public Utilities Commission's decision last month to take a closer look at the company's interconnection processes and plans to retire and replace fossil fuel plants. Last year, concerns were raised during status conferences hosted by the commission that HECO's interconnection processes are causing unnecessary delays and increasing costs to renewables projects currently under development. But in a...

Dive Brief: Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission last week opened a new docket to take a closer look at Hawaiian Electric's (HECO) interconnection processes and plans to retire fossil fuel power plants, after status conferences hosted by the regulators last year highlighted concerns around unnecessary delays and rising project costs. Hawaiian Electric's alleged lack of transparency around its interconnection processes creates "the potential for a significant setback to renewable energy development in this State," the PUC said in an order, adding that the delays could also jeopardize plans to...

Oahu's solar industry has been bright spot for Hawaii, during the darker economic times of the pandemic.

EPA: Hawaii's Military Bases Dumped 630,000 Pounds Of Toxic Nitrate Into The Ocean - Honolulu Civil Beat EPA: Hawaii’s Military Bases Dumped 630,000 Pounds Of Toxic Nitrate Into The Ocean While federally permitted, the Environmental Protection Agency hopes the data’s public release spurs facilities to reduce their chemical waste. Reading time: 7 minutes. U.S. military bases in Hawaii dumped more than half a million pounds of nitrate compounds — toxic chemicals commonly found in wastewater treatment plants, fertilizers and explosives — into the ocean in 2019, newly released federal d...