New solar farm celebrated on Ewa plain - The Garden Island
New solar farm celebrated on Ewa plain - The Garden Island
New solar farm celebrated on Ewa plain
Jamm Aquino / Star-Advertiser A general view of some of the thousands of solar panels at Kupono Solar Farm in Ewa Beach on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Kupono is the largest solar-plus-battery storage facility on Oahu, with its thousands of solar panels promising to deliver renewable energy to power 10,000 Oahu homes as well as the reduction of more than 50,000 tons of CO2 annually.
EWA BEACH, Hawai‘i — More than 1 gigawatt hour of electricity has flowed into O‘ahu’s utility grid over the past week from a new solar farm in Ewa Beach.
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