December 1, 2010
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii County considers wind farm for South Kohala
By Associated Press, www.staradvertiser.com 30 November 2010
By Associated Press, www.staradvertiser.com 30 November 2010
The Hawaii County Department of Water Supply is considering building a wind farm to power its South Kohala wells.
The department would lease about 80 acres of state land next to its Lalamilo wells and have a developer build the wind mills.
The project would create 50 construction jobs and three permanent jobs.
Department energy management analyst Julie Myhre says a wind farm built on the site in the mid-1980s has been decommissioned and the site has been cleaned up.
West Hawaii Today reported Monday the wind farm would save about $500,000 a year in electricity costs for the next 20 years.
A department spokeswoman says it’s too early to tell if the facility would generate excess energy to sell to Hawaii Electric Light Co.
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/12/01/hawaii-county-considers-wind-farm-for-south-kohala/