Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Hu Honua Bioenergy Appeals to Hawaii Supreme Court After Rejection of Biomass Plant
July 1, 2022 Mark Ladao Honua Ola Bioenergy filed an appeal Wednesday with the Hawaii Supreme Court to reverse a state Public Utilities Commission decision rejecting its plans to open a biomass plant on Hawaii island. On May 23 the PUC denied Hawaiian Electric’s request to purchase electricity from Honua Ola Bioenergy’s biomass facility in Pepeekeo, saying it is...Read MoreILWU Local 142, Honua Ola Bioenergy, Rally on Maui to Protest PUC Decision Eliminating Jobs for Big Island Families
Chants of “clean energy now!” and “local jobs for local families!” rang out in front of the State Office Building in Wailuku, Maui, on June 15, as 60 ILWU Local 142 members were joined by a dozen Honua Ola Bioenergy employees and other union representatives to protest the Public Utilities Commission’s 2-1 majority decision rejecting Honua Ola’s power purchase...Read MoreHawaii’s First Energy Project Committed to Be Carbon Negative
Honua Ola will reduce Hawai’i Island oil imports by 250,000 barrels a year Bioenergy is created by using fast growing renewable plant plant crops instead of fuel oil to generate electricity. When more plants are grown than harvested, they will remove more carbon from the atmosphere than emitted, resulting in a carbon negative operation than lower greenhouse gas...Read More