About Geothermal Energy
Benefits
- Emissions are low.
- Reduced cost of fuel to generate electricity.
- Reduced reliance on imported oil and exposure to the volatile world oil price market.
- Risk management through diversifying the portfolio of electricity generation options.
- Job creation and economic benefits.
- Environmental benefits, including reduced pollution, reduced global warming, and the threat of oil spills from transporting fossil fuels to the various Hawaiian Islands.
- State-owned geothermal resource generates geothermal royalties to the state.