Tag: oahu

  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    - by Duane Shim­gawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacif­ic Busi­ness News The only coal-fired pow­er plant in Hawaii, which is the sin­gle largest gen­er­at­ing plant on Oahu, is under finan­cial stress because there is no finan­cial reserve, accord­ing to the Hawai­ian Elec­tric Co.‘s new ener­gy plan released this week. Hawai­ian Elec­tric is also ask­ing AES Hawaiito con­vert some of the…