Fellows mentioned in this story: Wren Wescoatt

From Civil Beat:

Clean energy developers in Hawaiʻi, along with state and county leaders, are scrambling to more quickly build at least a dozen utility-grade solar and wind projects deemed critical for the islands’ future power needs before they lose federal tax credits being phased out by the Trump Administration.

Those tax credits are meant to cover roughly 30% of the costs, Longroad Energy Vice President Wren Wescoatt said, and without them it doesn’t make financial sense to build the projects. Nonetheless, the state is counting on those projects to help its bumpy transition away from fossil fuels.

Longroad aims to build Hawaiʻi’s largest-ever renewable energy project, Mahi Solar and Storage, which would provide Oʻahu with 120 megawatts of electricity from a 600-acre site near Kunia.

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