Chair of the Energy and Environment Committee. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Nicole Lowen. Nicole Lowen, chair of the Energy and Environment Committee in the Hawaii House of Representatives, helps us examine current issues and bills under consideration, including the nuclear energy bills; the status of the Hu Honua […]
Energy Issues for 2024, What’s Happening (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
What Decisions Can we Expect for Hawaii. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Henry Curtis. Henry Curtis, Executive Director of Life of the Land, helps us understand what is in play in the courts, the PUC and the state legislature for 2024, and what we can expect as we move […]
Save Money with Federal Tax Credits (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
Decarbonize Using Inflation Reduction Act. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guest is Adam Strubeck. The episode updates information about the $370 billion Federal Inflation Reduction Act and what its benefits could be for Hawai’i residents. This legislation provides energy production tax credits, energy investment credits, and funding to agencies for grants […]
A Report on the EoT Programs at Hawaiian Electric (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
Charge up and Plans for More Public Charging. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Yingwei Kaplan. Yingwei Kaplan, manager of Electrification of Transportation (EoT) Deployment and Operations at Hawaiian Electric, reports on the various EoT programs at Hawaiian Electric, including the Charge Up Commercial program and Hawaiian Electric’s planned public […]
Tracking Federal Energy Policy – BIL (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guest is Adam Strubeck. The discussion introduces the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) that provides for $550 Billion in new federal investment in America’s infrastructure and what its benefits could be for Hawaii. It also projects to add 2 million jobs per […]
Tracking Federal Energy Policy (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
The Inflation Reduction Act. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guest is Adam Strubeck. An introduction to the $370 billion Federal Inflation Reduction Act and what its benefits could be for Hawaii residents. This legislation provides energy production tax credits, energy investment credits, and funding to agencies for grants and loan programs […]
DERs and Peer-to-Peer Energy Marketing (Perspectives on Energy)
Energy Trading at the Consumer Level. The host for this show is Guillermo Sabatier. As rooftop solar, electric vehicles and other forms of energy generation and storage become widely available and affordable, more residential consumers of electricity will become ‘prosumers.’ This means they will have the capability of producing energy beyond their needs, storing it, […]
It’s More than Just Cobalt in the Congo (Global Connections)
It’s Global Economic Competition. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker of Pacific Forum helps us understand the larger foreign policy and global economic issues inherent in the acquisition of China Molybdenum’s acquisition of cobalt in the Congo, and how those issues involve and will affect the […]
Hubs in Hawaii: Green Ground Transportation (Code Green)
Super-efficient Ground Transportation. The host for this show is Howard Wiig. The guest is Parker Kushima. Cities worldwide move people around at a fraction of Hawaii energy use. Hubs in Hawaii is a blueprint for emulating those cities by getting people out of their cars and using a combination of rail, bus, bicycle and individual […]
Experimental Sodium Chlorine Batteries (Likable Science)
Hold 6 Times More Charge that Lithium-ion. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Ethan Allen. Our chief scientist Ethan Allen helps us understand the new sodium chlorine battery technology which is being developed by Stanford University scientists with a new version of decades-old, single-use battery architecture that is not only rechargeable, but […]