03-13-2026, 05:50 PM
But until Hawai'i gets off its addiction to using bunker fuel for most of its electrical generation
I don’t know the percentages, but HECO generates a larger amount of electricity from solar during the day time from commercial solar and rooftop net metering inputs. HECO has a program that lowers your electric rate during daylight hours to encourage use of power from their solar inputs. Of course for people who work by day and charge their car at night, they would need charging stations at work.
environmental costs through its lifecycle. Both in the acquisition and manufacturing and in the disposable of its parts
If you take into account drilling, pumping, shipping, and war, petroleum products have a pretty high total acquisition cost, and the disposal cost of CO2 emissions every time you drive, plus human life from the fighting over limited petroleum and its geographical location as part of the equation. As one writer put it last week, solar travels 93 million miles and still doesn’t have to go through the Strait of Hormuz to get here.
Housing is already expensive in Hawaii, so rooftop solar isn’t for everyone. There are however solar companies that install and own the panels on your roof and rent/sell the power generated back to you.
I don’t know the percentages, but HECO generates a larger amount of electricity from solar during the day time from commercial solar and rooftop net metering inputs. HECO has a program that lowers your electric rate during daylight hours to encourage use of power from their solar inputs. Of course for people who work by day and charge their car at night, they would need charging stations at work.
environmental costs through its lifecycle. Both in the acquisition and manufacturing and in the disposable of its parts
If you take into account drilling, pumping, shipping, and war, petroleum products have a pretty high total acquisition cost, and the disposal cost of CO2 emissions every time you drive, plus human life from the fighting over limited petroleum and its geographical location as part of the equation. As one writer put it last week, solar travels 93 million miles and still doesn’t have to go through the Strait of Hormuz to get here.
Housing is already expensive in Hawaii, so rooftop solar isn’t for everyone. There are however solar companies that install and own the panels on your roof and rent/sell the power generated back to you.