Last year, Hawaii experienced the largest annual solar generation capacity increase it has seen in about 15 years, Hawaiian Electric announced on Friday.
Total solar capacity in 2019 surged 21%, increasing from 745 cumulative installed megawatts in 2018 to 902 megawatts at the end of last year — the highest single-year increase since Hawaiian Electric began tracking solar capacity in 2005.
Throughout the company’s five-island systems, there are now an estimated 3.5 million solar panels producing…
