Kauai,Hawaii @ 55% reneable
Last Tuesday,PBS Television's NHK Tokyo Television's news program did an encore presentation of a January,2020 report.
*The Hawaiian island of Kauai had attained 55% solar electricity production and night time delivery capacity via Tesla grid-scale battery storage.They were saving $millions by scaling back in diesel fuel requirements.By 2045 they expect to be at 100% solar and zero carbon at the grid.AES Corporation is company involved in the project. *Kyocera (makers of photovoltaic panels) was offering a product akin the Tesla's Powerwall,allowing Japanese with rooftop PV to store and use solar electricity. *Japan's Malibu Hotel became the world's first commercial building with the capability to run off BEVs plugged into its EV chargers in the hotel parking lot.The hotel was offering employees incentives to purchase BEVs for themselves.The BEVs shown were exclusively Nissan LEAF cars.In the aftermath of an earthquake/Tsunami event,the hotel would have a few days of available stand-alone power,should the grid go down. |
Kauai is the perfect place to go solar. Their solar hours are fairly regularly distributed throughout the year as well as heating/cooling requirements, and grid electricity is among the most expensive in the country.
Doesn't make sense here in the PNW when electricity demand and daylight hours vary a lot by season. |
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Well that's one place that makes sense to do so.
No natural resources besides tons of sun and clear weather and incredibly isolated. Beats running everything off fuel oil. |
EVs are perfect for Kauai too. The island is 33 miles long, so there's hardly any reason to have range anxiety.
As I've been maintaining, islands are the perfect place for EVs. There's no way I'd own a gasser on any of the Hawaiian islands, especially considering the plentiful sunshine, moderate temperatures, and high fuel prices. |
Yeah all your fuel has to be shipped like 2,000 miles.
Solar panels ship them once and they should last 25 years. |
I'm disappointed that more headway hasn't been made on OTEC. Hawai'i had an operational pilot plant in 2015: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversion#Hawaii
I came here looking for a place to drop this: www.washingtonexaminer.com: Trump administration approves largest solar farm in US, expected to power 260,000 homes Quote:
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I always see a concentrated solar plant flying into LAS. My understanding is those are much more cost effective than PV, so I wonder why that isn't being pursued?
I'd like to see pumped hydro tested on a large scale, like Lake Mead. |
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the cheapest gas price is 2.25 THAT is way cheaper then california locally it's 2.89 |
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