August 27, 2020
By Dave Segal
The state Public Utilities Commission has rejected a request from Hawaii Electric Light Co., the Big Island power company, to waive competitive bidding on the long-stalled and nearly completed $350 million Hu Honua Biomass Project.
Hu Honua, which now does business as Honua Ola Bioenergy, says the plant would produce 21.5 megawatts of power. Hu Honua was formed in...Read More
August 27, 2020
By Dave Segal
Life of the Land, whose 2017 appeal to the state Supreme Court led to the state Public Utilities Commission rejecting Honua Ola Bioenergy’s power purchase agreement with Hawaii Electric Light Co., filed a motion Wednesday with the PUC saying that Honua does not meet the standard for reconsideration.
The nonprofit environmental group also took umbrage at comments...Read More
25 August, 2020
by Dave Segal
Honua Ola Bioenergy said in a filing submitted to the state Public Utilities Commission on Sunday that it will start laying off employees if the agency is unable to make a decision by Sept. 30 regarding the fate of the company’s biomass plant in Pepeekeo on the Big Island.
The company filed a motion for reconsideration with the PUC on July 20 after the agency...Read More
Aug 13, 2020
By Megan Fernandes
The Hu Honua project continues to be in limbo now that the deadline for submitted testimony passed on Monday, and the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission must now review a large amount of newly submitted information and testimony.
Hawaiian Electric Light Company, now referred to as simply Hawaiian Electric, submitted its position statement to the PUC in support...Read More
