First Wind Announces Start of Commercial Operations for its OahubasedrnKawailoa Wind Project

摘要

2012 DEC 7 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Energy Business Journal -- First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, announced that construction of its Kawailoa Wind project has been completed and commercial operations have begun. Located on Kamehameha Schools' Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu's North Shore, the 69 megawatt (MW) wind project will be able to generate enough clean and costcompetitive wind energy to power the equivalent of approximately 14,500 homes on the island. At full output, it has the potential to meet as much as five to ten percent of Oahu's annual electrical demand and avoid the burning of about 300,000 barrels of oil each year.