Ua kūʻai aku ʻo HEI i ka hale mana uila Pacific Current iā Harbert, Hawaii

Ua kūʻai aku ka hui makua o Pacific Current, ʻo Hawaii Electric Industries (HEI), i ka hale mana uila o Hamakua 60MW o Pacific Current ma.

Hawaii i kahi hui o Harbert Management.

ʻO Harbert ka mea nona a me ka mea hoʻohana i ka manamea kanu, a me Hawaii. Mai ka makahiki 1997, ua paʻa ka hui

i ka 208MW Kalaeloa Partners cogeneration facility ma Oahu.

He pilina lōʻihi ko Harbert me Hawaiian Electric Company a ke manaʻolana nei e hoʻoikaika hou i ia

pili me kēia loaʻa," wahi a Claude Estes, ka luna hoʻokele koʻikoʻi o Harbert a me ke poʻo o ka ʻoihana.

“Ua hauʻoli mākou e lilo i ʻāpana o ka mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi i ka wā e hiki mai ana a e lawelawe i nā kamaʻāina o ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi."

ʻO ke kūʻai aku ʻana i ka hale hana he hana nui i ka Pacific Current Strategic Alternatives Assessment i haʻi mua ʻia e HHI.

Ke hoʻomau nei ke kaʻina loiloi no nā waiwai ʻē aʻe o ka Pākīpika i kēia manawa.

Ua ʻōlelo ka Luna Nui o HEI, ʻo Scott Seu, "Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei mākou ʻo ka ʻike nui o Harbert i ka loaʻa ʻana a me ka hana ʻana i nā mea kanu mana.

a ʻo ka lilo ʻana i hoa maikaʻi me nā pono hana i loko o ko mākou mokuʻāina e lawelawe i ka Hamakua Energy Plant a me ka Hawaiian Electric Company

maikaʻi i ka hāʻawi ʻana i ka mana i ka poʻe o ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi a me ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka neʻe ʻana o ka mokupuni i kahi hoʻonui

ikehu hou e hiki mai ana.

"ʻO kēia kūʻai aku kahi hana ʻē aʻe i ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i ka hoʻolālā a me ke kūlana hoʻoponopono o HEI i ko mākou nānā ʻana i kā mākou ʻoihana pono nui."