I was surprised to see little solar or wind development on my visit to Hawaii. On the sunny side of most islands this would seem to be ideal and on the rainy sides there seem to be fairly steady winds. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right places or didn't notice... Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
Wind is coming. The BI has a couple of decent sized farms and are doubling capacity. Maui is adding a wind farm too. Oahu has an older windfarm that was regarded as a dog, but stories have been circulating that they were going to replace the turbines and add new capacity as well. Even on kauai our backward coop is now getting serious.
Solar is still 2X the price of oil fired juice. Nobody is rushing to put in solar on a big scale. More likely we'll jump into biomass as the ag lobby is strong.
