Kapolei Energy Storage facility to stabilize Oahu grid
With the closing of Oahu’s last coal-burning power plant less than two weeks in the rearview and a series of renewable energy goals on the advancing horizon, the new Kapolei Energy Storage facility in West Oahu is projected to both ease the transition from conventional power generation and serve as the backbone for the power grid of the future.
Those are lofty visions for what at the moment looks like dozens of giant refrigerators lying on their sides in a 7-acre expanse of what, on a rainy September morning, is quickly turning into thick, shoe-sucking mud.
