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Perspective

Hawaiian Electric: Yoh Kawanami

Co-director for Customer Energy Resources

“Community Based Renewable Energy is where you have a solar farm but people that live in a condo or have an odd-shaped roof may be able to invest in those panels and get a bill credit as if they have rooftop solar.”
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Yoh Kawanami

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Hawaiian Electric: Christian Whitney

Director for Pole Infrastructure Enterprise

“In order for anyone to accomplish their sustainability goals or for Hawaiian Electric to accomplish our reliability goals, the future is all in the telecom and the technology.”
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Christian Whitney

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Hawaiian Electric: Jack Shriver

Director for Generation Project Development

“Our islands are relatively small, and the acreage footprint is going to start to become a more contentious issue. We’re going to need to look for technologies that don’t use up as much of our precious resources.”
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Jack Shriver

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Federal Stimulus

Time to Bring Out the Secret Sauce Again?

Smartening the grid over the last decade-plus has been a great achievement. And one that we owe in large part to the stimulating effect of the ARRA.
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Steve Mitnick

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Broader Innovation Insights

Engaging Market Collaborators

Third-party collaboration relationships should be designed to provide benefits to customers, such as tangible advantages that enhance business choices about energy resources or fit the needs for energy awareness at the premise.
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Tom Flaherty

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Curing the Analytical Bias

Replacing Discount Rate Driven NPV with IRR Analysis

NPV analysis relies on the selected discount rate. The selected discount rate can affect the outcome of the analysis. Thus, the introduction of a new metric; the differential internal rate of return (DIRR), and its expected value are discussed.
Byline: 

David Boonin

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Grid Modernization

State Policies

The Energy Supply Task Force is most relevant to utilities and Commissions given that legislators establish the parameters within which PUCs and utilities operate.
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Kristy Hartman, Glen Andersen, and Tom Sloan

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Electrify Everything?

Heat and Light in Deep Decarbonization Policies

This article attempts to highlight some of the logical disconnects and omissions in the current electrification debate. The author has no conflict of interest in this analysis and is strongly supportive of deep decarbonization policies.
Byline: 

Hal Nelson

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