Hawaii’s biggest wind energy project, the 69-megawatt (MW) Kawailoa Wind venture on Kamehameha Schools’ Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu’s North Shore, is now below development.
On the North Shore of Oahu Island, Hawaii
The wind energy venture will contain thirty 2.three-MW Siemens wind turbines, which will generate adequate electrical energy to power about 14,500 houses on Oahu Island, roughly 5% of the island’s complete electricity demand.
U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor Brian Schatz, State Senator Mike Gabbard, Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle, and other individuals hosted a project groundbreaking on Friday.
“This venture will not only support the State meet its renewable power ambitions, but it will also assist protect and help continued agricultural production for long term generations,” Giorgio Caldarone, Regional Asset Manager and Renewable Energy Sector Lead at Kamehameha Schools, said. ”Kamehameha Colleges is committed to sustainability and to investing in projects right now that will produce optimistic outcomes for future generations. Mahalo to the North Shore neighborhood and to everyone else who aided to make this vision a reality.”
“This is the biggest wind farm in Hawai’i’s historical past, and it exhibits the progress we are creating toward our clean power goals. This is a excellent day for Hawai’i. We’ve moved from talking about renewable power to in fact doing it,” Lt. Gov. Schatz.
That line above that I bolded really stands out to me. The massive majority of the U.S. population supports and would like more investment in clean power. Poll right after poll following poll exhibits this. And a lot of individuals in highly influential positions talk about supporting clean energy. But help and speak are distinct from action, and they usually come extended prior to it. It’s exciting to see far more and more states, localities, and nations moving forward with clean power, and I can only hope that the other people will swiftly move from theoretical support and speak to action. 1 essential purpose we featured so numerous stories like this on CleanTechnica is simply because I feel they inspire others to start off and at some point implement this kind of tasks, or similar tasks that green their world with one more clean technologies.
But, back to the venture, here are some much more facts you may well be interested in:
“In December 2011, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission authorized a power obtain agreement in between Initial Wind and the Hawaiian Electric Business (HECO), which serves a lot more than 400,000 Hawaii clients. Hawaii state law mandates 70 percent clean vitality for electrical energy and surface transportation by 2030, with 40 percent coming from regional renewable sources. Kawailoa Wind will considerably advance the state’s progress towards these goals.”
I’m certain that clean power mandate was a enormous element of this project’s fuel. Don’t have this kind of a mandate in your state? Or have one that you feel is too weak? Organize some influential and inspirational men and women and get it going!
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