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Hawaii utility commits highest-in-nation rooftop solar on circuits but can grid handle it?
2015-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A pitched battle that stopped a solar boom in Hawaii is over, at least temporarily. Rooftop installations are increasing again for the first time in two years. The biggest utility in the Aloha State, Oahu-based Hawaiian Electric Co., or HECO, has reopened a blocked pathway to adding more local photovoltaics. It will allow new rooftop systems on crowded circuits that the utility had all but shuttered 18 months ago. The utility at the time said the move was needed for safety reasons, as a bounty of...
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