Hawaii

“Today, Hawaii gets a third of electricity from local renewable energy, the vast majority from solar. Almost half is from small systems on rooftops. That's way more than the mainland US, which gets about 20% of its energy from renewables, Mostly hydro and wind.”

“Now they're also paying what they call the battery bonus, where if you add a, Battery to your house when you already have solar you could get up to like 4000 dollars of credit for making that, that battery power available in the evening hours.”

“Hawaii has a lot of rooftop solar today, and in fact, so much rooftop solar that they, the state put in place these policies to kind of discourage anyone from exporting more to the grid.”

“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…”

“They, but they got seven million dollars to grow seaweed in Hawaii, and in fact Danone was one of their big investors, and I think that's really exciting.”

“The majority of power in Hawaii is still from burning oil, actually, because that's what you can ship in.”

“Within a year, they got close to, like, 30 megawatts of capacity out of all this which makes it definitely one of the largest Aggregations of home battery capacity in the country.”

“There's more solar capacity on rooftops in Hawaii than in utility scale projects.”