Hawaii Integrated Energy Assessment. Volume I. Overview

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6075723

This study addresses the questions of how, when and to what extent Hawaii's abundant geothermal, wind, solar, ocean thermal and biomass energy resources can be harnessed to displace oil during the next 25 years. Three energy demand-supply projections were structured to quantify the transition to the commercial use of indigenous resources. Energy Futures 1 and 2 take form partly in response to an average 3% per year increase in the price of oil. Future 2, however, incorporates improvements in end-use energy efficiency and conservation beyond those induced by oil price alone. Future 3 is shaped by a high rate of increase in world oil price - 10% per year over inflation. While a sustained price escalation at this rate would be severely disruptive to society as a whole, it serves the purpose here of providing perspective on the sensitivity of a transition to indigenous resources attributable to oil price alone.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA); Hawaii State Dept. of Planning and Economic Development, Honolulu (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6075723
• Report Number(s): DOE/TIC-2003961; ON: DE82003961
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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