Working Groups
The lifeblood of the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Initiative consists of the more than 100 community members and national experts who have formed five working groups dedicated to helping Hawai‘i harness its clean energy potential. The working groups were conceived as a means to integrate the technical and policy expertise of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with Hawai‘i-based knowledge and project resources. Their role is to set out specific milestones to be achieved, create roadmaps for reaching them, and clear the path to a clean energy future for Hawai‘i. The working groups are made up of local stakeholders, including people from the Hawai‘i State Energy Office, county economic development boards, and Hawaiian Electric Company, as well as national energy experts from DOE and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
There are four primary working groups:
These four groups are tasked with
- Benchmarking the current state of clean energy in Hawai‘i
- Identifying information gaps
- Identifying structural and technical barriers to reaching the 70% clean energy goal
- Developing strategies for overcoming the barriers.
In addition, there is an Integration working group, which is tasked with
- Reviewing the work of the four technical working groups
- Identifying areas of overlap or conflict among the recommendations of the groups
- Combining symbiotic elements to create practical scenarios for moving forward with the work to be done
- Providing input into a strategy for building broad public support for the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Initiative.
