Hawaii’s Return to Gas Puts Energy Reliability in the Spotlight

Hawaii has a plan to generate all of its energy from low-emission sources by 2045. It is a bold plan, as the state’s administration admits, and it is also a plan that will see Hawaii start importing liquefied natural gas. Hawaiians pay the highest electricity rates in the United States. They pay even more than Californians, who also have an administration with significant ambitions in the net-zero transition. With Hawaii, however, the reasons for the high rates include its geographical isolation, which makes it necessary to ship fuel oil…