The cost of electricity is high here in Hawaii because the fuel to run our power plants — mostly oil, but also coal — has to be shipped in from at least 2300 miles away. Our electric bills were running between $240 and $260 a month, and we have neither heating or air conditioning ……
The cost of electricity is high here on Maui because the fuel to run the power plant has to be shipped in from at least 2300 miles away. Last I checked, we were paying something like 41 cents per kilowatt hour. That translated into monthly electric bills that typical ran between $240 and $260 a…
It’s an economic fact-of-life here in the islands that almost everything costs more. And those higher costs are usually attributable to the cost of shipping. That’s primarily what’s behind the high cost of electricity. We are, after all, some 2300 miles from the West Coast and all the fuel to power our generators, be it…
We have just gone solar. The sun is now heating the water we use for washing dishes and for showers, and it’s also providing electricity during the daylight hours when it’s not overcast or raining. It was a big step, but should be worth it in the long run. There are both federal and state…