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Hawaiʻi’s LNG Business Case Was Overly Optimistic & Built On A Broken Spreadsheet

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The revelation that the spreadsheet behind Hawaiʻi’s headline LNG savings case appears not to include the cost of the LNG itself is the kind of finding that changes the center of gravity of an entire policy debate. The Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi press release on March 12, built around comments … [continued]

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San Francisco Could Add 100 New Curbside EV Chargers

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It’s not too exciting, but this little-by-little approach is how public EV charging expansion has been going. In the latest update, the city of San Francisco has proposed to install 100 new curbside public EV chargers to provide extra public charging options. It has been reported San Francisco already has … [continued]

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Burning Plastic Isn’t Renewable: Rethinking Waste & Power In Hawaii

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The starting point for evaluating Oʻahu’s waste-to-energy plant is the fully electrified energy system developed earlier in this series. Once overseas aviation fuel, international maritime bunkering, and military energy consumption are removed from the accounting, and once transportation, buildings, and industry are electrified, the island’s civilian electricity demand settles at … [continued]

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