BeyondKONA: Energy
Not since the Industrial Age has the opportunity for change in energy been as great as it is today. There is now a transformation from dirty, extraction-based fossil-fuel energy fuels now imported into Hawai’i, but choices we make as to acceptable “renewable energy” options will have positive or negative consequences and costs to Hawaii’s population and environment.
One thing is certain: $5 trillion dollars annually in global taxpayer subsidies of the fossil fuel (dirty energy) sector is unsustainable, and by any measurement, economically and environmentally, a costly and false economy. (2016-17 World Bank – IMF reports).
Zero emissions energy sources are driving new cost and performance efficiencies and environmental benefits for Hawai’i and that can propel the state’s transformation to a clean energy driven global economy. Hawaii’s abundant sun, wind, water, and geothermal energy assets are Hawaii’s mana.
- Idaho National Laboratory celebrates new Sample Preparation Laboratoryby [Energy Central] Steven Petersen on September 13, 2024 at 3:13 am
IDAHO FALLS – Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has completed substantial construction of a new facility that will serve as a national asset for accelerated […]
- Making Voluntary Markets for Clean Electricity Workby [Energy Central] Paule Armstrong on September 13, 2024 at 3:12 am
In 2023 and 2024, Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) brought together a small group of market-leading corporate and federal clean electricity buyers, key […]
- San Diego Commercial Solar Panels.by [Energy Central] James Kennedy on September 13, 2024 at 3:12 am
Businesses in San Diego County may be eligible for the 10% Energy Community Federal tax credit adder on commercial solar panel projects (bringing total Federal […]
- Hydrogen UK | Manifestoby [Energy Central] Charley Rattan on September 13, 2024 at 1:48 am
Hydrogen UK | Manifesto Hydrogen presents the UK with a substantial opportunity to drive economic growth and secure skilled jobs, by leveraging […]
- How does Climate Change Impact Education?by [Energy Central] Tony Paradiso on September 12, 2024 at 9:36 pm
The connection between climate change and education isn’t talked about much, but it should be. There are multiple layers to this connection, and some are not […]
- 5 PPAs via 1 POI, that’s utility-scale solar ROI!by [Energy Central] Kat Beaulieu on September 12, 2024 at 9:15 pm
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), more than 114 GW dc of utility-scale solar projects are currently either under construction or […]
- Grangemouth: Scotland's only oil refinery to close next yearby [Energy Central] Charley Rattan on September 12, 2024 at 8:45 pm
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- KBR Awarded Conceptual Study Contract for Floating Blue Ammonia Production by Samsung Heavy Industriesby [Energy Central] Charley Rattan on September 12, 2024 at 7:59 pm
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- Amsterdam-based Brineworks secures €2 million to drive down cost of e-Fuel feedstocksby [Energy Central] Charley Rattan on September 12, 2024 at 7:23 pm
Brineworls Sustainable, affordable and abundant sourcing of CO2 is the key for achieving large scale e-fuel production. This is how we can decarbonize […]
- Somehow I Manage – September 2024 - [Energy Management Network Community Manager Digest]by [Energy Central] Matt Chester on September 12, 2024 at 7:11 pm
Thank you for checking out the Energy Management Network Community Manager digest. This piece compiles important articles that concern different […]
- UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happenedby Andrew Sparrow on September 12, 2024 at 4:48 pm
The prime minister blamed the Tories for ‘breaking’ the NHS and said reform of the service was needed Starmer sets out some of the most negative findings […]
- US solar supply chain buildout faces high hurdles, RE+ panel saysby Diana DiGangi on September 12, 2024 at 4:14 pm
“It's going to be really tough for the U.S. supply chain …. to compete against other countries that are acting in ways that are not economic,” said […]
- Oil demand growing at slowest rate since height of pandemic, says IEAby Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent on September 12, 2024 at 3:29 pm
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- Middle River Power reverses plan to shut 540-MW plant amid record PJM capacity pricesby Ethan Howland on September 12, 2024 at 1:57 pm
The company withdrew plans to shutter its gas-fired Elgin power plant in Illinois after capacity prices jumped to $270/MW-day in PJM's part of the state.
- Government rules out underground cabling in National Grid upgradeby Helena Horton Environment reporter on September 12, 2024 at 1:38 pm
Rollout of pylons in countryside is a cheaper, quicker way to integrate green electricity, energy adviser saysThe government has ruled out burying electricity […]
- Grangemouth oil refinery to close by end of June, putting 500 jobs at riskby Jillian Ambrose and Libby Brooks on September 12, 2024 at 1:36 pm
Owners confirm site will become fuel import terminal and distribution hub, in blow to Scotland’s industrial baseBusiness live – latest updatesThe owners of […]
- Cape Station may be world’s most productive geothermal system to date: Fervoby Emma Penrod on September 12, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Fervo's success with advanced drilling techniques appears to be driving a significant uptick in geothermal development in Utah, the Bureau of Land […]
- Texas power outages cost consumers $35,685 per MWh of unserved load: Brattleby Robert Walton on September 12, 2024 at 12:16 pm
State regulators adopted a Value of Lost Load metric to weigh the benefits of future investments to improve grid reliability.
- Ford is first US automaker to participate in Southern California Edison’s emergency DR programby Robert Walton on September 12, 2024 at 12:00 pm
“The electric industry has been preparing infrastructure and systems to take advantage of vehicle-to-grid integration,” said Southern California Edison […]
- The impacts of climate change on deeply decarbonized energy systems: A New York case studyby Kevin Steinberger, Vignesh Venugopal and Tory Clark on September 12, 2024 at 12:00 pm
As the impacts of climate change intensify, it will become increasingly important for energy system planners to directly account for the effects that warming […]
- Low-carbon homes can save £1,341 in bills and should be compulsory, study showsby Fiona Harvey Environment editor on September 12, 2024 at 5:00 am
UK government urged to change regulations so new homes incorporate solar panels, heat pump, high-grade insulation and battery storageBuilding new homes to […]
- Fracking explained: the controversial extraction process that Harris and Trump sparred overby Dharna Noor on September 11, 2024 at 7:34 pm
Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, record amounts of oil and gas have been produced in the US in the past six yearsKamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed over […]
- Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trumpby Oliver Milman on September 11, 2024 at 4:25 pm
Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicated a shift, probably to assuage voters in swing statesKamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and […]
- Inside Eraring, the giant coal-fired power station that escaped a 2025 death sentenceby Peter Hannam on September 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Shifts in the NSW plant’s control room look a lot different now to what they did 20 years ago – largely because of the progress of renewablesFollow our […]
- Washington aims to support its clean buildings standard with $7.8M DOE grantby Nish Amarnath on September 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm
The Building Efficiency and Clean Operations Network project proposes to train at least 60 fellows to provide energy services to building owners and operators.
- FERC greenlights BlackRock’s $12.5B purchase of Global Infrastructure Partnersby Lamar Johnson on September 11, 2024 at 1:58 pm
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the transaction on the back of a blanket authorization it first granted the asset management firm in 2010.
- Why many environmentalists are warming to nuclear powerby Judi Greenwald on September 11, 2024 at 1:39 pm
They are revisiting their early concerns about nuclear power — primarily waste, safety and costs — in light of new information, and they are concluding […]
- National Grid, Constellation propose options to prioritize grid interconnection requestsby Ethan Howland on September 11, 2024 at 1:16 pm
However, “rationing” grid interconnection threatens open access to the power system, GridStor’s Jason Burwen said Tuesday at a Federal Energy Regulatory […]
- A coal plant bulldozed an Ohio town displacing residents. Now its owners include a big Trump donorby Oliver Milman in Cheshire, Ohio on September 11, 2024 at 10:00 am
Gavin coal plant, now part-owned by Blackstone whose CEO backs Trump, bought Cheshire in 2002 to move people en masse. Two decades later, locals recall its […]
- G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaignersby Fiona Harvey Environment editor on September 10, 2024 at 2:11 pm
Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutionsUK politics live – latest […]
- How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar powerby Andrew Gumbel and Adam Lowenstein on September 10, 2024 at 10:00 am
The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firmsThe Biden administration touts solar […]
- The solar pump revolution could bring water to millions of Africans but it must be sustainable and fair | Alan MacDonaldby Alan MacDonald on September 9, 2024 at 10:00 am
Solar power could enable 400 million Africans without water to tap into groundwater aquifers. However, we must ensure smaller projects do not lose out in the […]
- Why ‘the UK’s biggest carbon emitter’ receives billions in green subsidiesby Jillian Ambrose on September 9, 2024 at 5:00 am
The Drax power plant burns 7m tonnes of biomass pellets a year and generates 4% of the UK’s electricity needsThe cooling towers of the giant Drax power […]
- Boris Johnson faces ‘serious questions’ over new business with uranium entrepreneurby Carole Cadwalladr on September 7, 2024 at 6:19 pm
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- The National Trust must again resist the group trying to turn grievances into policy | Rowan Mooreby Rowan Moore on September 7, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Burning with unquenchable resentment, Restore Trust is making another attempt at taking over the institutionThe leaves are starting to change and there’s […]
- What's at stake in the US election? The climate for the next million years | Bill McKibbenby Bill McKibben on September 6, 2024 at 12:36 pm
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- Wind and solar farms power Great Britain’s grid to greenest ever summerby Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent on September 6, 2024 at 7:00 am
Exclusive: Reliance on fossil fuels fell in August to less than one-fifth of all electricity generated across countryGreat Britain’s electricity system has […]
- University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – reportby Dharna Noor on September 5, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Study’s authors say integrity of higher education ‘at risk’ upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firmsFossil fuel companies’ funding […]
- Global heating could raise potential for offshore wind power, study saysby Kate Ravilious on September 5, 2024 at 5:00 am
Heating of 4C could increase potential offshore wind energy by average of 9% by end of century, research suggestsA warmer world could bring more potential for […]
- Can Australia reach net zero by 2050? A new reports shows it must be ‘the new normal’ | Frank Jotzo for the Conversationby Frank Jotzo for the Conversation on September 5, 2024 at 12:51 am
The Climate Change Authority’s sector pathways review says a huge national effort is needed and the net zero goal should become front of mind for business, […]