12-02-2008, 12:53 PM
Beachboy, right you are, I railed about geothermal until I learned the Hawaiian community was down on it. The location of the present plant is not the best, but they're saying that even from that location they could provide the whole island with power, and they are stuck on the HECO price.
I have heard that the pricing structure is coming to a renogiation time, and it isn't constitutionally protected. They say it was instituated to keep the small startups from getting killed, and I'm sure to allow rate hikes.
The reason the individual solar owner can't get a decent return for his excess generation is transmission lines. For years the prospect of going underground has been proposed, well now with a new president who wants new ideas, the time is right for a new beginning.
Damon's blog mentioned a company with a new prospect of electric cars, chargable at stations by battery exchange, not recharging. Plus Ford and Chevy are getting billions in bailout, and have promised EV production.
Give Hawaiians the chance to initiate and build the plant and Island wide underground power with stations island wide for battery exchange. Solar and wind could contribute, and the best existing oil fired units relagated to backup!
Everyone wants the unions to take hits, now it's HELCO and their shareholders chance.
I have heard that the pricing structure is coming to a renogiation time, and it isn't constitutionally protected. They say it was instituated to keep the small startups from getting killed, and I'm sure to allow rate hikes.
The reason the individual solar owner can't get a decent return for his excess generation is transmission lines. For years the prospect of going underground has been proposed, well now with a new president who wants new ideas, the time is right for a new beginning.
Damon's blog mentioned a company with a new prospect of electric cars, chargable at stations by battery exchange, not recharging. Plus Ford and Chevy are getting billions in bailout, and have promised EV production.
Give Hawaiians the chance to initiate and build the plant and Island wide underground power with stations island wide for battery exchange. Solar and wind could contribute, and the best existing oil fired units relagated to backup!
Everyone wants the unions to take hits, now it's HELCO and their shareholders chance.
Gordon J Tilley