- Location United States
- Energy Solar Energy
- Client HECO
- Status In operation
- Commissioned 2025
- PPA expiry 2050
- Gross installed capacity 30
- Participation Innergex (%) 100
As part of the request for proposal process launched in 2018 by the Hawaiian Electric Company and its subsidiaries, Innergex developed and commissioned the Hale Kuawehi solar and battery storage facility. Developed on land owned by the historic Parker Ranch near Waimea, on the island of Hawai’i, it was commissioned in 2025.
The project powers approximately 14,600 Hawaiian households with clean, renewable energy.
To power the island of Hawai’i with clean and renewable solar energy, a solar field consisting of arrays of photovoltaic panels arranged in rows on single-axis tracking foundations charges the batteries during the day to provide electricity whenever it is needed most, day or night.
Land
Hale Kuawehi is connected to the grid to supply the community with the needed power via an overhead transmission line that is extending from the Project switchyard approximately 0.7-miles northwest, across Mamalahoa Highway, to connect into the Hawaii Electric Light Company transmission line.
The solar field and associated infrastructure occupies approximately 300 acres.
