Hawai'i is looking to rooftop solar power to alleviate its reliance on fossil fuels to generate electricity.
have had a fraught relationship from the very beginning. Ever since the days of Thomas Edison, utilities have gotten their electricity from large generating stations and distributed it to customers through a system of sub-stations, poles, and wires. The electricity was supposed to flow in one direction only. There’s another wrinkle to consider as well.
Think that’s an exaggeration? How else to explain the nefarious plot by the utility industry several years ago to pass an amendment to the Florida constitution that would have put a halt to the proliferation of rooftop solar in the Sunshine State. They That fact, more than any other, has forced Hawai’ian Electric Company to rethink its long standing opposition to rooftop solar. A decade ago, its CEO, Shelee Kimura, pressured state lawmakers to reduce incentives for rooftop solar, a tactic that the utility industry has used across the country. According to the, she argued that rooftop solar is not as efficient as large scale solar and wind farms.
But recent events have caused Kimura and HECO to change their tune. “In Hawaii, we’ve come to the recognition that rooftop solar is going to be an important part of our grid, has to be part of our grid,” she now tells theThe state now offers homeowners on Oahu — home to 70% of its population — incentives to install home batteries with their rooftop solar systems. Utility companies can tap those batteries for power between 6 and 8:30 p.m.
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