Kauai Island’s KIUC electric utility cooperative’s transition to Solar+Wind+ Batteries holds the promise of greater reliability, lower operating costs, and cheaper clean energy for consumers. KIUC also represents Hawaii’s first island community on its way to 100% power self-sufficiency, with the added community bonus of producing Zero emissions and pollutants going into the local environment from power plants.
Welcome to BeyondKona, a community web site designed to inform, educate, and promote Hawaiian values of caring for our aina.
BeyondKona’s mission is to advance an environmentally sustainable and 100% clean energy economy for Hawai’i.
BeyondKona.com features daily news, research and analysis, commentary and community conversation focused on Hawaii’s changing climate, growing clean energy economy, and the environmental, social, and political elements which are shaping life in Hawai’i and around the world.