First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, is celebrating the start of construction of its 69 MW Kawailoa Wind project on Kamehameha Schools' Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu's North Shore.
The site's thirty 2.3 MW Siemens wind turbines will have the capacity to generate enough renewable wind energy to power the equivalent of about 14,500 homes on the island, or as much as 5% of Oahu's annual electrical demand.n ...