Energy

This March, KIUC members will elect three people to serve on the board for a three-year term. Thursday is the last day to submit a petition.

The IRS has made it a bit easier for EVs to qualify for tax credits in 2025. In the meantime, here's what you need to know about which cars are eligible right now.

This year, Hawaiʻi Public Radio reporters set out to make sense of some of the state's most confusing, weird and beautiful environmental stories. We shared news about seaweed-eating goats on Hawaiʻi Island, little fire ants on Maui, mosquitoes on Kauaʻi and much more. Join us as we look back at our favorite earthy stories.

The State Consumer Protector shares ways to stay protected against holiday scams; we discuss an emerging mental health crisis among boys and men; and we share the call of the java sparrow in today's Manu Minute

The electric utility announced Friday that it will start contract negotiations with developers. The projects could produce approximately 517 megawatts from intermittent sources like wind and solar, and about 654 megawatts of firm generation.

The Asian Development Bank has started a program to help countries cut their climate emissions by reducing the amount of coal they burn. But in many parts of the Asia Pacific, that's a complicated matter. HPR's Bill Dorman has more in today's Asia Minute.

An environmental representative from the Pacific Islands has delivered a message on the region's priorities in Dubai. That's where COP28, the UN Climate Change Conference, is taking place. HPR's Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.

Negotiations are underway at COP28, the largest global climate talks yet. But the controversy over the influence of oil has cast a long shadow on the United Nations summit. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote spoke to local policymakers and advocates about how the talks may affect Hawaiʻi's climate goals.

Dubbed Paeahu Solar, the plan proposed in 2018 was to build a 200-acre utility-scale solar array and battery storage system with a Canadian company named Innergex.

Greenpeace activists are engaged in a sit-in protest on a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaiʻi. They say the boat is conducting exploration which will be used to justify destroying marine.