by honuaolabioenergyNovember 27, 2020 News0 comments

Honua Ola Will Use Albizia to Generate Renewable Energy

Eucalyptus make up the lion’s share of trees in Hawaii’s commercially managed forests, and the wood chips from this commercial crop will be used by Honua Ola Bioenergy as feedstock to generate clean renewable energy to replace fossil fuel energy coming from oil-fired power plants. Replacing fossil fuel energy with renewable energy is the only way the state can achieve its goal of 100%...

by honuaolabioenergyNovember 17, 2020 News0 comments

4 Bioenergy Myths Busted

Renewable energy technologies, including bioenergy, provide the most effective means for reducing greenhouse gases and decreasing dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the proponents of intermittent technologies, particularly solar, have taken their eye off the fossil fuel problem, and attacked other renewables, like bioenergy and geothermal, firm renewable energy projects, that must be...

by honuaolabioenergyNovember 12, 2020 News0 comments

Hawaii Tribune-Herald: Industry in Jeopardy

November 12, 2020 By Guy Cellier I was hired by Prudential Timber as the project manager for the planting of trees along Hamakua after the demise of sugar. During this process, we planted more than 10 million trees on more than 25,000 acres of abandoned sugar cane land. This process provided work for machine operators, planting crews, professional foresters, local nurseries and paid regular...

by honuaolabioenergyNovember 9, 2020 News0 comments

Four Reasons Why Bioenergy is The Solution to Hawaii’s Renewable Energy Equation

In June 2015, Governor David Ige signed House Bill No. 623 into law, setting a goal of powering Hawaii with 100% renewable energy by 2045. In order to achieve this clean energy target and diversify Hawaii’s renewable portfolio standard, we need to leverage a variety of renewable energy technologies, such as biomass, wind, solar and geothermal, all working in unison to replace fossil fuels....

by honuaolabioenergyNovember 4, 2020 News0 comments

Hawaii Tribune-Herald: Leaders Fail to Act on Diversifying Economy

Nov. 4, 2020 By Mark Hildebrant For decades our leaders have been talking about diversifying our economy, yet their cumulative decisions have left us with an economy that is dependent on 10 million people travelling here yearly in carbon-dioxide factories and overwhelming our roads, neighborhoods and natural resources. New $122,400 taxpayer-funded bureaucrats, central planners picking winners...