Hawaii is just about the only place in the US that relies on oil for electricity. And because it does, it’s electricity is tremendously more expensive than in most of the US (as you’ll see in the infographic below). Combine that with Hawaii’s wonderful sunshine and the increasingly low price of solar power, and you can see that solar has hit grid parity in “The Aloha State.”
From more fun Hawaii solar facts, check out this visualistic (yes, I made that word up) infographic from Alternate Energy, a solar installer in Hawaii:
