Hawaiian Electric Co. delays $235M LNG project for two years
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2015/06/03/hawaiian-electric-codelays-235m-lng-project-for.html
Jun 3, 2015
Hawaiian Electric Co. does not envision shipping liquefied natural gas to the Islands until 2019, two years later than it originally planned, according to public documents filed with state regulators this week.
The $235 million project, which still needs the approval of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, calls for a vendor to supply and deliver up to 800,000 tons of LNG per year for up to 15 years.
Hawaiian Electric had said that it would begin the shipments starting in late 2016 or early 2017.
Can’t they just derive Ethanol from Pineapples? Make the governator pedal a stationary bike hooked up to an alternator?
What a joke!
Cane-fields throughout Hawaii are burned on an annual basis. The GHG and particulate emissions during these “proscribed” burns can equal or surpass the emissions of any Title-V location on the mainland.
You better visit Hawaaii now while you still have magnificent views. In 30 years, they will have covered all of the islands with windmills.
five days no power will resolve the issue.
Issues and Challenges, Location
http://www.hawaiianelectric.com/heco/Clean-Energy/Issues-and-Challenges
A key challenge to any major infrastructure project, including renewable energy facilities, is location. Most people say they favor renewable energy, but when it comes to building a project, they may say “Not in My Back Yard.”
Renewable resources are not shared equally among islands. Oahu has the most people and thus the greatest electricity demand but limited sites and resources for renewable energy projects. Hawaii Island has abundant geothermal energy, a resource no other island presently uses for electricity.
Each Hawaiian Island has a separate stand-alone grid and it presently is not possible to move electricity between islands. Some renewables are not always available, like sunshine, wind, even the water in small streams. Having a large percentage of variable or “as available” energy on small, remote grids such as those in Hawaii is challenging, making it harder to maintain reliability and power quality. In addition to variable renewable energy sources, the electric utilities need “firm” energy sources which are available on-demand 24 hours a day to meet its customers’ energy needs.
Supporting facilities, including power lines, substations, transformers and other equipment also pose a challenge. Most renewable energy projects are built in remote areas, far from population centers. Infrastructure to bring the power from these places to the grid – and to store or “smooth” variable “as available” energy — is expensive and adds to the cost of the electric power.
Still, Hawaiian Electric, Maui Electric and Hawaii Electric Light Company are working hard to increase renewable energy. This includes encouraging other companies to develop renewable projects, adding power lines and substations needed for renewable projects and working on ways to smooth and store “as available” power.
Lefist luddite. Simply amazed at the ignorance of people sometimes, although I shouldn’t be.
100% renewable generation? Are they crazy!
I am betting that the democrats are against plugging into the heat from the volcanoes as there are sacred or something too.
On an archipelago of islands. Where it rains all the time. Sure, great idea.
Morons.