Fellows mentioned in this story: Josh Stanbro

From Pacific Business News

The Hawaiian Council, formerly CNHA, a local nonprofit organization working to advance the cultural, economic and community development of Native Hawaiians, has appointed Josh Stanbro as the chief administrator of its new clean energy initiative.

The program, called Kalāhiki, was created to help Hawaii achieve a clean energy economy to minimize climate impacts and threats, and bring energy affordability to residents, through collaboration with government leaders, industry partners and the community. It is also meant to ensure Hawaii residents have access to affordable assets in home resilience, hurricane protection, fire hardening and heat abatement.

“The Kalāhiki initiative is really about how can we design local partnerships with trusted, home-grown service providers, whether in the energy efficiency space, in the solar space, in the battery backup space, and then ultimately, in the resilience space,” Stanbro told PBN. “We want to make sure that folks that don't have that much have a chance to protect what they do have, whether that's through energy savings and reducing your utility bill and giving you extra dollars in your pocket once a month, or whether it's keeping your house standing after a tragedy like we saw in Lahaina.”

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