Is anybody in Hawaii producing local biofuels?
No ethanol is currently produced locally; several companies had planned to build ethanol facilities and Gay and Robinson plantation on Kauai is planning to use sugar cane to produce ethanol. With ethanol prices very low at present, all these plans are on hold. A Maui-based firm, Pacific Biodiesel, produces biodiesel in Hawaii from waste restaurant cooking oils and on the Mainland from other feed stocks, including from soybeans in Texas through a partnership with singer Willie Nelson. And there has been considerable activity lately on the potential for developing agricultural energy in Hawaii. This includes, among others, a high level meeting hosted by Governor Linda Lingle; a “grass-roots” Hawaii Biofuels Workshop sponsored by the Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company and others. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum at the University of Hawaii and State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism developed a report to the Hawaii Legislature entitl
No ethanol is currently produced locally; several companies had planned to build ethanol facilities and Gay and Robinson plantation on Kauai is planning to use sugar cane to produce ethanol. With ethanol prices very low at present, all these plans are on hold. A Maui-based firm, Pacific Biodiesel, produces biodiesel in Hawaii from waste restaurant cooking oils and on the Mainland from other feed stocks, including from soybeans in Texas through a partnership with singer Willie Nelson. And there has been considerable activity lately on the potential for developing agricultural energy in Hawaii. This includes, among others, a high level meeting hosted by Governor Linda Lingle; a “grass-roots” Hawaii Biofuels Workshop sponsored by the Agricultural Leadership Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company and others. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum at the University of Hawaii and State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism developed a report to the Hawaii Legislature entitl
