Hu Honua Bioenergy LLC Information

Hu Honua is committed to its share of maintenance of Sugar Mill Road and has set funds aside in an escrow account while it resolves whom the proper entity is to receive the funds and how much its share is. Hu Honua Bioenergy LLC is converting the former Hilo Coast Power Company plant at Pepeekeo into a modern biomass energy facility. After sugar operations ceased, the facility operated for some years as a coal-fired power plant. Hu Honua will use only biomass. The goal is for the plant to be operational by late 2012. It will produce 24 megawatts of power, about 10 percent of the island's electrical needs and about enough for 14,000 homes. It expects to employ about 100 construction workers for up to a year for plant refurbishment and then about 30 fulltime workers at the facility.