After a robust dialogue re the Peaehu contested case hearing, The team invites back CarrollAnn of Pono Power Coalition to continue the discussion about how community members can better participate in the decision making process around our ramp to 100% renewables.

Should community members be a part of the land choice discussion at the earliest stages of the RFP process? Can DEBEDT's solar modeling program HAVEN help to visualize what a 100% renewable energy Maui will look like? Are compromised or contaminated lands a viable source for location of these utility scale systems? Are new technologies like Sunflare and other lightweight CIGS panels a good option for these locations with unsettled lands like landfills. If not solar how about SMR's, or other sources of energy and firm power. How does the IPCC's assessment of 12 years left to mitigate climate change play into the urgency of our decision making. Or to quote Tyler Durden in FIght Club are we only "polishing the brass on the Titanic?" Should community members be given back NEM and as a part of the utility scale solar roll out. Josh says yes! Tune in to hear all the juiciest Maui and Solar bits!!!

Meanwhile ...Musk says

“If you wanted to power the entire United States with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States,” Musk said at at the event in Rhode Island. “The batteries you need to store the energy, so you have 24/7 power, is 1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile.”