Just 13% Meh, plant some windmills on the windward side of the islands to make it up. I mean it’s way out in the Pacific so it’s not like they would screw with anyone’s “view shed”. We can watch the grand experiment but you know it won’t alter “their” plans. The envirowankers appear to be unaware just how much of their existence relies on by products from petroleum and it’s by products. Do they consider which scenario is worse if a coal transport breaks up and sinks or an oil tanker breaks up and sinks. Unlikely but it could happen. Typhoon Asskicker comes along and....... 😵💫🐂💩
Where does the other 87% of HI electricity come from?
How much is geothermal?
Iceland pretty much powers their whole country/island from geothermal.
This is from the EIA:
QUICK FACTS
“Hawaii was the first state to set a deadline for having 100% of its electricity sales come from renewable energy, which is required to be achieved by 2045. In 2020, the state’s power suppliers met the interim requirement that 30% of electricity sales come from renewables.
Despite being among the five states with the lowest total energy consumption, Hawaii uses about 12 times more energy than it produces. More than four-fifths of Hawaii’s energy consumption is petroleum, making it the most petroleum-dependent state.
In 2020, solar power provided almost 17% of Hawaii’s total electricity, primarily from the increase in generation from small-scale, customer-sited solar panel systems that nearly doubled since 2015.
In 2020, the amount of Hawaii’s coal-fired generation was the lowest since 1992, and coal fueled 11% of the state’s electricity generation. The state’s single coal-fired power plant is scheduled to close in 2022.
Hawaii has the highest electricity retail price of any state and it is nearly triple the U.S. average rate, in part because the state relies on imported petroleum for 60% of its electricity generation.
Last Updated: February 17, 2022”
https://hawaiienergy.com/images/educationOutreach/EnergyResourcesinHawaiiPresentation.pdf
The Pie chart on page 4/12 shows the breakdown according to HI energy.
Apparently, HI has the third highest amount of solar panels/per capita in the USA(after NM & NJ). Yet all those solar panels add up to a grand total of .1% of total electricity produced.
Sounds like they need to convert that coal fired plant to bio mass or there are a lot of people who are going to have to turn down the AC.
Their Electricity rate/ KWH is already the highest in the country. $.37/KWH residential rate.
Maybe they could use Geothermal to boil water for steam to spin a few generators.
If they only had a heat source and some water...