Residential prices for power in Hawaii are 30 cents a KWh or triple what they are in many "normal" states. I pay 11 cents a KWh in Georgia. The fact that hawaii is only 30% renewable and imports so much fossil fuel pretty much tells me that all these articles extolling the low price of renewable energy are half-truths at best. Nuclear is the best answer for carbon free power for the next 50 years if not longer. At 30c/kwh Hawaii would have stopped bringing in expensive fossil fuel a long time ago if solar and wind really were that cheap and easy. Build 100 nuclear plants minimum right now and continue to slowly ramp up solar and wind. But no, we won't. I wonder how much $$$ our current government will waste (3.5 trillion anyone?) when we could have built a bunch of nuclear plants? The more we build the cheaper they would get once we regain the expertise we used to have.
