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The contract, valued at $1.5 million, is intended to find the best routed for the cables and to supply data for a future environmentallimpact statement. The work will be handled by and Technology. It will be paid for with federak money fromthe U.S. Department of Energy. Completing the survehy could help put the project in line for federal stimuluxsgrant money, said Ted Peck, the state’s energyg program administrator.
“This is the firsft step in the developmenyt process that will help make thisproject ‘shovelp ready’ so that it will qualify for federa l stimulus funds,” Peck said in a prepared The cable will be at least 30 miles long and will integrate two proposedr wind farms on Lanai and Molokai into the electri grids on Oahu and announced in March that it wouldc buy 200 megawatts each from , which is proposingg to build a wind farm on and , which is planningv a farm on Molokai. The stated has not released the total cost of the which was announced as part of the Hawaiji CleanEnergy Initiative.
The initiative’s goal is to reduce the state’s dependence on oil by requiring that 70 percentg of its energy come from renewable sourcesby 2030.
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