Richard Ha, owner of Hamakua Farms and chair of Kuokoa, has attended four Peak Oil conferences and has been a big advocate on the Big Island for expanding geothermal energy. 

State legislators and the state energy office appear to be getting on board. 

Ha writes the following on his blog: 

We are very lucky, though, to have an indigenous alternative – Geothermal. Generating electricity from geothermal costs approximately 10 cents per kilowatt hour, while generating electricity from oil (at $100 per barrel) costs more than 20 cents per kilowatt hour. Geothermal-generated electricity prices will be stable for generations, while oil prices will keep on rising.

Read the full post here.