07-11-2008, 09:56 AM
Commerical & residential users CAN lease a grid tied PV system, with a locked in rate...
Solar Edison is the commercial firm that supplied Island Natural's Pahoa PV system & residential homeowners can look into Photon Power or Hawaii Solar Power... http://www.hawaiisolarpower.com/
HELCO uses alternative energy.... in fact, Hydroelectric was one of the MAIN sources for much of the beginning of last century... they were looking to expand their Hydroelectric in the late eighties (initially with the blessing of the county officials...).
To understand reluctance to upgrading today, you just need to look at what happened to their project less than twenty years ago....
So don't gripe about someone else doing it, do it yourself....
(we still don't have a high enough bill.... but if it was near $100... we would jump on!
Added... Hydroelectric is preferred as the system lasts for many decades to centuries & here it can give fairly consistant power supply (electric co. hate inconsistant power - they have to have working peak capacity ALWAYS available... PV is great for areas that have peak daytime demand, this county peak demand is evening hours...)
Solar Edison is the commercial firm that supplied Island Natural's Pahoa PV system & residential homeowners can look into Photon Power or Hawaii Solar Power... http://www.hawaiisolarpower.com/
HELCO uses alternative energy.... in fact, Hydroelectric was one of the MAIN sources for much of the beginning of last century... they were looking to expand their Hydroelectric in the late eighties (initially with the blessing of the county officials...).
To understand reluctance to upgrading today, you just need to look at what happened to their project less than twenty years ago....
So don't gripe about someone else doing it, do it yourself....
(we still don't have a high enough bill.... but if it was near $100... we would jump on!
Added... Hydroelectric is preferred as the system lasts for many decades to centuries & here it can give fairly consistant power supply (electric co. hate inconsistant power - they have to have working peak capacity ALWAYS available... PV is great for areas that have peak daytime demand, this county peak demand is evening hours...)