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VETO SB 2510 CD 1!
RE: Urgent Request to VETO SB 2510 CD1 Dear Governor Ige: On behalf of my employees and customers, I am writing to urge you to veto SB 2510 CD1, which would impose anti-market quotas and caps on renewable energy deployment in Hawaii and establish an overly-stringent...
Five Questions with Hawaii Pacific Solar on the PV Industry
By Brian McInnis - Reporter - Pacific Business News November 15, 2021, 12:55pm HST Maui-based Hawaii Pacific Solar, or HPS, has negotiated a number of changes and challenges to the photovoltaic and storage installation industry over the last 12 to 18 months. Hawaii...
Infrastructure – Before of After?
The article below recognizing the growing interest in electric vehicles (EV), by Robert “Bob” Johnston, president and chief executive officer of Hawaii Pacific Solar, was featured in the April 2021 issue of Building Management Hawaii What will come first –...
Featured in Building Industry Magazine
Bob Johnston, president and CEO of Hawaii Pacific Solar, talked about solar expansion helping reboot the Hawaii economy in the February issue of @TradeMediaHui's Building Industry magazine. "Our industry is in a unique position. It benefits from public policy (the...
REPLACING AND REPOWERING LEGACY PV SYSTEMS
Tax credits and technological and efficiency advances are two great reasons to repower your commmercial solar system
City Law Promotes Charging Stations
By Daniel Roberts, Vice President, Operations, Hawaii Pacific Solar As seen in Building Management Magazine, pp. 32&33, September 2020 Hawaii moved a step closer to 100 percent renewable energy with a recent Honolulu County...
New Solar Options Available
As Hawaii continues down the path to get to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, Hawaiian Electric expects a large portion of this energy to be supplied from private sources like rooftop solar. The utility has therefore developed more programs to encourage the adoption of more solar.
AI Will Upset Energy Industry – In a Good Way
In the future, AI will better enable building managers and owners to forecast demand for electricity usage.
DOE Campus Installs Renewable Energy Systems
Queen Liliuokalani Facilities Campus Gets Solar, Storage and EV Charging Stations (HONOLULU, Dec. 20, 2019) -- The Department of Education's (DOE) Queen Liliuokalani Campus is now being largely powered by renewable energy covering over 55 percent of the electrical...
Financing Renewable Energy
There are many ways to finance your renewable energy project including cash, loans, leases, power purchase agreements (PPA), on-bill financing and others. But to get started, we strongly suggest getting an energy audit to determine how energy is currently being used and to evaluate which modifications could reduce usage.