Community
A power plant sits in someone's place. Before a project is designed, we learn whose place it is — the neighbors, the landowner, the beneficiaries of the land, the families who have lived there for generations — and we bring the project to them while it can still change.
Hawaiian Home Lands — Hawaiʻi Island
Alahao Firm Generation and Alahao Energy Storage sit on a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands industrial parcel at Panaʻewa, beside Hawaii Electric Light's Kanoelehua substation.
The Hawaiian Homes Commission approved HL&P's right-of-entry to the parcel in February 2025.
DHHL will hold a meeting for beneficiaries in Hilo on December 6, 2026.
Hawaiʻi Island, Since 2005
HL&P's Principal acquired the Pepeʻekeo biomass plant, now Hu Honua, from C. Brewer in May 2005, and sold a majority interest in 2008.
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