System Overload Slows Hawaii’s Solar Energy Boom

Some 10 percent of households in Hawaii have installed solar panels like this one.  Al Jazeera

Energy collected by homeowners’ panels taxed the state’s power grid, and the local utility has stopped connecting them

america.aljazeera.com - by Jennifer London - January 10, 2014

For more than four decades, sunny Hawaii has led the way in clean, renewable energy.

Today 10 percent of households in the Aloha State have rooftop solar systems to generate electricity, compared with no more than 3 percent in California. But now Hawaii is facing a problem: the increase of privately installed solar panels has overloaded the power grid.

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