Clean Technica
Summary
This is the culminating article in a series exploring from the outside a decarbonization solution set and coarse roadmap for Hawaiʻi. It is a set of possible next actions that a Hawaiian agency, utility, authority, or coalition could undertake if the roadmap outlined in this series is worth exploring further. The work to this point has been a thought exercise in the art of the possible. It shows that Oʻahu’s domestic civilian energy system can be rebuilt around roughly 6,000 GWh per year of electricity, with solar supplying most of the energy, batteries and demand management shaping it across the day, district cooling reducing peak loads, some onshore wind adding diversity, and a small biomethane reserve covering rare events. That is a coherent end state. The next step is not to assume it will happen. The next step is to determine whether it can be made real in a way that is testable, understandable, and acceptable.
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