Puakō Solar is a thoughtfully-sited 60 MW photovoltaic facility with a 4-hour battery (240 MWh) that will provide low-cost renewable energy to the grid for 20 years at a fixed annual price. The project will make clean energy available to the grid after the sun goes down when demand for electricity peaks.
Clearway is focused on carefully informing and engaging with neighboring communities and stakeholders about the project scope, the project benefits, the development and governmental process, as well providing the community with timely information throughout all phases of the Puakō Solar project, giving the community an opportunity to engage and weigh-in on the project. Clearway plans to connect with the community through early talk story meetings with community members as well as Town Hall meetings, presentations to neighborhood boards, and other outreach channels as the project progresses.
Community Benefit Fund
Workforce Development & Economic Investment
Lower Costs & Reliable Power
Puakō Solar has been designed with careful consideration of the permitting requirements related to the land use of the project site, as well as the potential environmental, biological, archeological, cultural and aesthetic impacts of the Project. The project site is well-studied and as such the current conceptual design is well informed, but adaptable. The site plan takes into account grading, drainage, civil, utilities, access, and lot coverage.
The Project site is vacant, undeveloped land with scrub vegetation and lava rock. The project site has been the focus of previous development efforts, including a master-planned rural community and more recently as a utility-scale solar project, and therefore, has been well studied. In order to understand potential constraints of the site and permitting pathway, Clearway Energy completed a detail review of the studies completed to date to understand the potential site constraints. The previous studies, including a Phase 1 ESA, Archeological Inventory Study, land use and zoning review, and a draft notice to prepare an Environmental Impact Study.
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