Gov. David Inge (D) has signed a bill to make Hawaii the first U.S. state to commit to generating 100% of its power from renewable sources. The June 17 action to reach the goal by 2045 follows by days NextEra Energy shareholder approval to acquire Hawaiian Electric Industries.

总部位于佛罗里达州的Nextera是美国最大的太阳能开发商。该公司表示，仍然需要州监管机构的43亿美元交易将为公用事业提供资源和专业知识以符合该标准。英格在一份声明中说：“作为美国最依赖石油的州，夏威夷每年花费大约50亿美元用于外国石油来满足其能源需求。”

The state's generation fleet is primarily oil-fired. Hawaii has been shifting to cleaner energy sources since it signed a pact with the U.S. Energy Dept. in 2008. Hawaiian Electric filed plans last August with regulators that set a goal of 65% by 2030. The utility exceeded its 15% renewables goal for 2015; it now has 413 MW of solar generation and 202 MW of wind generation installed across the islands, says a utility spokesman.

Reaching the goal will require a diverse portfolio of renewable resources and strong upgrades to the grid, says Alan Oshima, Hawaiian Electric CEO. Among the projects launched to help reach the goal is a proposal to build 200 MW of large-scale solar farms; that proposal is now before regulators for review. T

he utility plans to triple the amount of distributed generation on the grid by 2030, says the spokesman. The company also is pursuing customer-sited and utility-scale energy storage and has solicited proposals from developers.

该法律包括警告：可再生能源目标扩展（Beyond 2030） - 不可能诱使开发商人为地提高夏威夷可再生能源的价格。该州能源办公室管理员马克·格里克（Mark Glick）在一份声明中说：“提高夏威夷可再生能源的标准也将促使该州保持创新的领先地位。”夏威夷电气计划将LNG用作桥梁燃料，直到将更多的可再生能源纳入系统中为止。