02-03-2012, 06:25 PM
Jerry,
Kohala center did an extensive research on this almost 5 years ago:
http://www.kohalacenter.org/pdf/analysis...ations.pdf
(The presentations of this report were years ago, but I seem to remember some of the discrepancy was in the different grade oils used at different production areas & different long term contract pricing that each of the companies have...but this is in the waayy dusty memory bins..)
For research geeks, Kohala Center has a nice inventory of on-line research work:
http://www.kohalacenter.org/research.html
I am not sure there are many mainland production facilities that are totally generating on fuel oils...Coal would seem to be the more economical Fossil Fuel... I would think fuel oils are mainly used in peaker production arenas that lack NG connectivity... and I would not think many electrical production companies utilize the same generators like the one at the Shipman site!
You may want to see if they have more updated info
Also, if you have not gotten the answers from HI, you may need to contact the PUC
http://puc.hawaii.gov/
This is an older PUC report:
http://puc.hawaii.gov/industries/Energy/...Prices.pdf
Kohala center did an extensive research on this almost 5 years ago:
http://www.kohalacenter.org/pdf/analysis...ations.pdf
(The presentations of this report were years ago, but I seem to remember some of the discrepancy was in the different grade oils used at different production areas & different long term contract pricing that each of the companies have...but this is in the waayy dusty memory bins..)
For research geeks, Kohala Center has a nice inventory of on-line research work:
http://www.kohalacenter.org/research.html
I am not sure there are many mainland production facilities that are totally generating on fuel oils...Coal would seem to be the more economical Fossil Fuel... I would think fuel oils are mainly used in peaker production arenas that lack NG connectivity... and I would not think many electrical production companies utilize the same generators like the one at the Shipman site!
You may want to see if they have more updated info
Also, if you have not gotten the answers from HI, you may need to contact the PUC
http://puc.hawaii.gov/
This is an older PUC report:
http://puc.hawaii.gov/industries/Energy/...Prices.pdf