Hawaii

The problem is that no one really agrees on how to price the services of hundreds or thousands of homes with batteries all acting in concert with digital controls. Pay too much and that could nudge up bills for a utility’s other customers. Pay too little and solar households have no reason to sign up for a program to help the grid. But with the right cost/​benefit trade-off, virtual power plants make the grid cleaner and more cost-effective by leveraging already-existing private infrastructure for the benefit of everyone else.

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Which makes last month’s decision by Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission all the more surprising. Instead of making Battery Bonus permanent, the regulators approved a successor program that strips away much of what made participation so enticing for customers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10573435

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant::undefined

On Monday, December 4, at 5:54 p.m. HST, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake occurred at Kīlauea volcano, at a depth of 1 mi (2 km) below sea level.

"It’s not unusual for Upper Kula residents terrorized by an Aug. 8 wildfire to wake up to find Pohakuokala Gulch, where the blaze is believed to have originated, filled with smoke from deep-seated hot spots still smoldering three months after 202 acres burned and 17 area homes were destroyed."

The dry start of the wet season in Hawaiʻi continues, according to the latest map published by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

My family is split on this. Overall I think it's more of a bad thing that really only benefits the big hotel chains. Has this new law affected anyone here negatively or postively?

Taken about three years ago.

East Molokai.

One of the things I find amazing about Hawaii is that you can have something like this growing in your back yard.

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Taken in January when Kilauea was active

Mauna Kea casts a shadow on the cloud tops just before sunset.

He was such a good dude and would not like me speaking this way. But his heart was bigger and better than mine.

Don't be a fucking selfish moron on the road!!

I got stuck in that stuff a couple weeks back and it was absolutely brutal. Stuck for three hours before bailing.