Here’s Another Thing To Love About Hawaii

By Ari Phillips, Climate Progress. 

Hawaii is on track to pass legislation this year requiring the state to go 100 percent renewable by 2040. 

Earlier this month, committees in the Hawaii House and Senate both unanimously recommended bills that would raise the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) from the current target of 70 percent by 2030 to the ultimate goal of 100 percent by 2040. Hawaii has had an RPS since 2001, and right now the state gets just over 21 percent of its power from renewable sources — a 12 percent increase in just six years.

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