At a community event, he raised concerns about MECO not moving fast enough to accept more renewable energy. Recently, the county put out its own RPF for waste-to-energy projects after government officials suggested that MECO was dragging its feet. 

Here’s the video from Akaku, posted on Halekala Solar’s website.

He’s quoted as saying: 

When we can go to a RFP and get 111 companies to bid on taking trash to energy, and Maui Electric won’t accept all of that firm power, and they are resisting it, then it is time to really hold their feet to the fire. They are charging this community roughly four times that what is paid on the continental U.S. — four times more. And we are offering options to be able to lessen that cost. We have to be able to look at what’s best for the community. If the obstacle is going to be Maui Electric then we must find a way to move past that obstacle.