Ke kūʻai aku nei ʻo HEI i ka hale hana mana o Pacific Current iā Harbert, Hawaiʻi

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

Hawaii i kahi hui o Harbert Management.

Ua lōʻihi ʻo Harbert i mea nona a me ka mea hoʻokele mana nā mea kanu, me Hawaiʻi pū kekahi. Mai ka makahiki 1997, ua paʻa ka ʻoihana i kahi kuleana

ma ka hale hana hoʻohuihui uila ʻo Kalaeloa Partners 208MW ma Oahu.

He pilina lōʻihi ko Harbert me ka Hawaiian Electric Company a ke kakali nei i ka hoʻoikaika hou ʻana i kēlā

pilina me kēia loaʻa ʻana," wahi a Claude Estes, ka luna hoʻokele kiʻekiʻe o Harbert a me ke poʻo o ke kahua.

"Hauʻoli mākou e lilo i ʻāpana o ka wā e hiki mai ana o ka ikehu o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi a e lawelawe i nā kamaʻāina o ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi."

ʻO ke kūʻai ʻia ʻana o ka hale hana he ʻanuʻu koʻikoʻi ia i ka Pacific Current Strategic Alternatives Assessment i hōʻike mua ʻia e HHI.

Ke hoʻomau nei ke kaʻina loiloi no nā waiwai ʻē aʻe o Pacific Current.

Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Scott Seu, Luna Hoʻokele o HEI, "Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei mākou ʻo ka ʻike nui o Harbert i ka loaʻa ʻana a me ka hoʻokele ʻana i nā hale hana mana

a ʻo ka lilo ʻana i hoa hana maikaʻi me nā pono hana ma 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 nā kānaka o ka mokupuni ʻo Hawaiʻi a me ke kākoʻo ʻana i ka hoʻololi ʻana o ka mokupuni i kahi

ka wā e hiki mai ana o ka ikehu hou.

"ʻO kēia kūʻai aku kekahi ʻanuʻu hou aʻe i ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana i ka hoʻolālā a HEI a me ke kūlana hoʻoponopono i ko mākou nānā ʻana i kā mākou ʻoihana pono hana koʻikoʻi."