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Where can someone buy a great bag of kona coffee as a gift to bring back to the U.S. mainland for a coffee lover. What time of year is best to buy it? Do you recommend a specific company? Price range is $75 or under.

Will be able to fly into Kailua-Kona, Honolulu, Kahului, or Kauai.

I've never been to Hawaii, and have never tried Kona coffee. Forgive me if this question sounds silly.

Papahānaumokuākea is the area around the northern islands above Kaua'i.

The problem is that no one really agrees on how to price the services of hundreds or thousands of homes with batteries all acting in concert with digital controls. Pay too much and that could nudge up bills for a utility’s other customers. Pay too little and solar households have no reason to sign up for a program to help the grid. But with the right cost/​benefit trade-off, virtual power plants make the grid cleaner and more cost-effective by leveraging already-existing private infrastructure for the benefit of everyone else.

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Which makes last month’s decision by Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission all the more surprising. Instead of making Battery Bonus permanent, the regulators approved a successor program that strips away much of what made participation so enticing for customers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10573435

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant::undefined

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10573435

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant::undefined

On Monday, December 4, at 5:54 p.m. HST, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake occurred at Kīlauea volcano, at a depth of 1 mi (2 km) below sea level.

"It’s not unusual for Upper Kula residents terrorized by an Aug. 8 wildfire to wake up to find Pohakuokala Gulch, where the blaze is believed to have originated, filled with smoke from deep-seated hot spots still smoldering three months after 202 acres burned and 17 area homes were destroyed."

The dry start of the wet season in Hawaiʻi continues, according to the latest map published by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

My family is split on this. Overall I think it's more of a bad thing that really only benefits the big hotel chains. Has this new law affected anyone here negatively or postively?

Taken about three years ago.