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From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
More than 1 gigawatt hour of electricity has flowed into O‘ahu’s utility grid over the past week from a new solar farm in ‘Ewa Beach.
Developers of the 42-megawatt Kūpono Solar project held a ceremony Thursday recognizing the completion of the facility, which began commercial service June 7 and also has batteries capable of storing four hours’ worth of electricity produced by the roughly 120,000 solar panels on 131 acres of land leased from the Navy.
Kūpono is the biggest renewable energy project on O‘ahu to date with batteries, though other existing solar farms and one wind farm without batteries are bigger.
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Spectrum News — Kūihelani Solar-plus-Storage, the state’s largest solar facility owned by AES Hawaiʻi, has begun to generate enough power for 27,000 homes supplying 15% of Maui’s energy needs. The project is estimated to offset the need to import two million barrels of oil to produce electricity on Maui.