2014-12-18 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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charge there then you could continue on your way to Hilo and use the fast charger on the way back, that might be a strategic location. Ms. Kelly: Sounds to me that there’s some on the west side, there’s some in east side, but what’s missing is the south and the north so that’s why you can’t, shouldn’t be running, yeah. Is that a correct statement? Mr. Rolston: Yeah. There’s a couple ways to do it. There’s a grant that was issued to a couple people where they will go and charge your vehicle if you call their number, they have mobile charger but what we’re looking at is strategic locations for electric vehicle chargers. So right now we’re building three at the Aupuni Center and three at the Hilo County building and then we’re going to replace the three we have here with new chargers. So that will happen in January to March timeframe. So we’ll have chargers on the Hilo side at the Aupuni Center and the County building, so total of four chargers. Ms. Kelly: The fast one? Mr. Rolston: No, just Level 2. Ms. Kelly: Over night? Mr. Rolston: If you have a Volt, it will take three hours. So if you have business, Council business over there for three hours, you can get a full charge. The chances are you’ll already have a little charge so after two hours you should be full. Ms. Kelly: Okay, thank you. Mr. Rolston: You’re welcome. Next slide, which slide is that? Ms. Kelly: Electric vehicle, transportation transit. Mr. Rolston: Okay, so we basically talked about this. We’re going to try to just like, very good question, we’re going to try to do an EV charger network in strategic locations so people can get around the island if they want to use an electric vehicle. The next slide shows a hydrogen bus, I believe that’s in Iceland. We’ll have two buses of similar size, may be a little smaller at Volcanoes National Park and we’ll have one Hele-On size at either the Hilo side or the Kona side. Next slide talks about the biodiesel we have, we’ve already talked about that, best biodiesel in the world and it’s good for the environment; and if there is a spill, there probably won’t be. The next slide shows you the Kea‘au plant. It’s the next generation biodiesel farm, best in the world. So it’s worth a visit if you guys want to take a tour, it’s fascinating. The next slide shows that the farmers are involved in the biodiesel transition, that farmers can use their waste crop and bring it to the biodiesel refinery and it can be chopped up and mixed with the waste grease. So it is a, also pays the farmer for their waste, so it’s a good sustainability model. The next slide talks about PUC commission dockets, which are kind of like a very long, legal proceedings about projects or different policies. So County of Hawai‘i has been in all these dockets and we continue to do so. Right before I came to this meeting, I just filed another filing in the decoupling docket and if you’re 12