12-05-2012, 02:41 PM
There are 3 power plants, Puueo is over 100 years old (1910) & the first production plant for HELCO (of any type...although it wasn't HELCO then...) and the newest is run by Wailuku River Power... put in service in 1993 & the last 'public' hydro put in service in this state..
All not in production right now (too low of a stream flow, all of them only start generating power when the river is running at least 10% of "normal" flow due to the 'run of the river' construction of their weir ...so it may be a little while - come on RAIN!)
All not in production right now (too low of a stream flow, all of them only start generating power when the river is running at least 10% of "normal" flow due to the 'run of the river' construction of their weir ...so it may be a little while - come on RAIN!)