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“And it's the largest power plant on Oahu which is the largest Hawaiian island by population. There's about a million people Benefiting from the power this coal plant creates.”

“And then this capital A energy storage battery, which is in many ways the linchpin of the whole plan for Oahu, because it's located just down the street from the coal plant. So it plugs into the same part of the grid that the coal plant used to serve, and it's…”

“He spent a lot of his time at this industrial park, at a coal plant that generates 15% of the island's electricity.”

“If things don't go smoothly, it certainly could give fodder to people who say that, hey, it's dangerous to move too fast on this stuff, or, you know, we need these coal plants, they're reliable, and this new, newfangled stuff isn't. You know, so that, that wou…”

“It's going to have to shut down next year in September, 20, 22.”

“The renewable projects, they bring a lot of short-term employment opportunities associated with construction, but the long-term operation and maintenance jobs that come with new clean energy projects don't really come close to the amount of jobs that are suppo…”

“In twenty-twenty-two, wind, solar, and hydro collectively generated more electricity than the nation's coal plants.”

“One of the things we wanted to highlight with this report, again, with the local renewables, is you can potentially reuse the interconnection rights that utilities have at these coal plants and transfer them to new renewables that can get ahead of the queue an…”

“Collectively, these coal plants hold about a hundred and seventy six billion dollars in debt, and there are a lot of efforts to figure out how to, what to do with this debt, and the federal government has created some programs in the Inflation Reduction Act to…”

“The only reason they are still in existence is because they have to provide heat to a paper mill, or to some other industrial facility, and those are things we can tackle right away”

“One really great example is Excel Energy. So they do see a large forecasted increase in electricity demand, but yet they still plan to retire all of their coal plants by the early 20 thirties and install significant amounts of new renewables.”