Hawaiʻi State Energy Office

After a week of back-and-forth, the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office has an answer about whether there was an error in its liquefied natural gas study.

The proposal, shared by Gov. Josh Green's Office on Tuesday morning, details plans to overhaul Oʻahu's energy grid to run on a new fossil fuel.

A former University of Hawaiʻi professor claims that the Hawaiʻi State Energy Offices liquefied natural gas report contains serious errors.

Mark Glick, chief energy officer of the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office, explains how the Strait of Hormuz shutdown affects Hawaiʻi's crude oil shipments from the Middle East.

For decades, Hawaiʻi has said no to nuclear power. But advancements in nuclear technology and pressures to shift Hawaiʻi away from costly oil have prompted some lawmakers to revisit the nuclear question.

Hawaiʻi relies on imported oil to run its electrical grid. The state got over a third of its fuel from South America last year — but none from Venezuela, which claims to have the largest oil reserves in the world.

Gov. Josh Green has entered Hawaiʻi into an agreement with JERA, Japan’s largest energy company, to move ahead with a plan to import liquefied natural gas to power Oʻahu’s grid.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that it would terminate more than $7.5 billion in funding awards to state-level energy projects. Those projects are mainly in Democrat-led states, including Hawaiʻi, which lost an estimated $68 million.

Mark Glick, chief of the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office, spoke to The Conversation's Catherine Cruz about the fragility of our energy reserves and the sense of urgency to diversify our energy portfolio.

Hawaiʻi's constitution sets strict limits on the development of nuclear power anywhere in the state. But lawmakers want an investigation into whether nuclear power has a role to play in the state's energy future. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote reports.