Sustainable Urban Energy Feasibility Studies for Oahu, Hawaii

Together with Hawaii’s gas utility, The Gas Company, GTI’s Sustainable Energy Planning Office is initiating two projects designed to help meet the priority objectives outlined in Hawaii’s Energy Plan, which include increased energy security, energy efficiency and resource diversification. In partnership with a consortium of local planners and administrators, including the University of Hawaii, the “Rebuild Hawaii” Program, and the City and County of Honolulu, these projects will investigate the feasibility of selected sustainable energy approaches, including distributed generation (DG), cogeneration, and combined cooling, heating and power (CHP) for some of Hawaii’s larger municipal communities on Oahu.

Specifically, opportunities for DG, CHP and solar energy systems deployment will be assessed at representative buildings at the University of Hawaii – Manoa, and the feasibility of on-site power generation with heat recovery, using bio-gas generated from anaerobic sludge digestion processes, will be investigated at viable Oahu wastewater treatment facilities.

These projects present opportunities for studying the feasibility of integrating sustainable energy applications, such as waste-to-energy and solar energy systems, with the use of natural gas, synthetic natural gas (SNG), and other gaseous fuels such as propane, at wastewater treatment facilities and institutional buildings.

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