Kauai Is Moving Forward On One Of The Nation’s Most Advanced Energy Projects…The solar-charged hydro power concept is being eyed to replace coal and other fossil-fuel powered electric plants in the U.S. and abroad.
KEKAHA, Kauai — The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, the island’s community-owned electricity company, has signed final agreements with AES Corp., a developer of a wide variety of generating plants, to build Hawaii’s first power plant relying on “pumped storage” technology.
Together, KIUC and AES will redevelop two existing reservoirs — one a couple thousand feet higher than the other. It will be on the west side of Kauai, near the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility.
