{"id":5940,"date":"2011-12-27T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:23","slug":"hawaii-solar-power-community-celebrates-favorable-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/hawaii-solar-power-community-celebrates-favorable-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Solar Power Community Celebrates Favorable Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5091\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hawaii-solar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hawaii-solar.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hawaii-solar\" width=\"260\" height=\"201\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5091\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dasolar<\/figcaption><\/figure>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsea.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii Solar Energy Association<\/a> has issued a note welcoming the decision by state regulators to reject a proposal by Hawaiian Electric Co. to require solar companies to install expensive remote monitoring systems for small solar photovoltaic systems. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Public Utilities Commission&#8217;s ruling helps clear the path for households and businesses that want to invest in Hawai\u00e2\u20ac\u02dci&#8217;s clean energy future,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeff Mikulina, Executive Director of the Blue Planet Foundation, a Hawaii nonprofit committed to ending the use of fossil fuels. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153By rejecting unnecessary new costs and hassles for clean power, this decision moves Hawaii a step closer to energy independence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concern among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/solar-articles.htm\" target=\"_blank\">solar energy<\/a> companies that utilities could curtail the amount of solar power generated from panels and raise costs for customers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Inside ClimateNews<\/em> has an in<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20111221\/hawaii-california-rooftop-solar-panels-15-percent-threshold-renewable-energy\" target=\"_blank\">-depth article about the issue<\/a>, which also affects California. The point of contention is a rule whereby distributed energy (such as rooftop PV solar power) needs to undergo a bureaucratic review once it reaches 15 per cent of peak demand  on a local circuit. Solar advocates in California and Hawaii, which pushed for the threshold a decade ago, now feel it is too low and the costs involved too high.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawaii Solar Energy Association has issued a note welcoming the decision by state regulators to reject a proposal by Hawaiian Electric Co. to require solar companies to install expensive remote monitoring systems for small solar photovoltaic systems. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}