Dignitaries break ground for Kuihelani Solar, a 60-megawatt photovoltaic system with 240 megawatt hours of battery storage that will be Maui’s largest solar electric producer when completed. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
Developers broke ground in Central Maui on Friday for the largest solar project planned in the state, a 60-megawatt solar, 240-megawatt-hour battery storage system that will have the capacity to power 27,000 homes on Maui.
Kuihelani Solar will be built on 450 acres of old sugar cane lands leased from Mahi Pono between Kuihelani and Maui Veterans highways. It’s expected to come online by October 2023.
“We’re just really excited. It’s taken a tremendous amount of collaboration with our partners, and our team has worked really hard to get all the approvals in place really to get us to where we are today,” Sandra Larsen, Hawaii market business leader for project developer AES, said ahead of the…
