“Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time which partnerships express themselves best” ~ Wayne Rooney “The best partnerships aren”t dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion” ~ Sarah MacLean

1. Saturday, September 16, 2017
ALEXANDER & BALDWIN
Mr. Christopher Benjamin, President
Mr. Rick Volner, General Manager for Diversified Agriculture
COUNTY OF MAUI
COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI
The Honorable Mike White, Chairman
The Honorable Robert Carroll, Vice-Chairman
The Honorable Alika Atay
The Honorable Elle Cochran
The Honorable Stacy Crivello
The Honorable Don S. Guzman
The Honorable Riki Hokama
The Honorable Kelly T. King
The Honorable Yuki Lei K. Sugimura
MAUI ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD.
Ms. Sharon Suzuki, President
Mr. Mat McNeff, Power Supply Manager
Re: A Public Private Partnership – Alexander & Baldwin, Maui County, Maui Electric
Maui Now or Later - H-Power
We recommend due consideration be given to the establishment of a public private
partnership between A&B, Maui County and MECO. The City & County of Honolulu is
presented as a functioning, fully operational system. The reasons for the establishment of this
public private partnership are,
1. A&B's Diversified Agriculture Model incorporates bio-energy crops1
,
2. Maui County's Central Landfill. “Landfills are expected to remain the most widely
used waste management method for the foreseeable future. Solid waste management
will remain an important land use issue for Maui. Central Maui Landfill: “ Capacity
will be reached by 2025”.2
3. “Maui Electric expects to have a reserve capacity shortfall from 2017 to 2022”.3
1 ALEXANDER &BALDWIN. Bio-Energy Crops. September 6, 2017. The Maui News.
http://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2017/09/volner-ab-not-farming-any-gmo-food-animal-feed-crops
2 MAUI COUNTY. General Plan 2030. http://www.co.maui.hi.us/DocumentCenter/Home/View/10491 pp. 49 - 51
3 MECO. Adequacy of Supply. January 30, 2017. https://puc.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2017-
MECO-AOS-Report.pdf

2. H-POWER
ELECTRICITY FROM REFUSE DERIVED FUEL, H-POWER,
OAHU
H-POWER (Honolulu Project of Waste Energy Recovery), the City
and County of Honolulu's "garbage to energy" plant, is burning
refuse-derived fuel to provide electricity which is sold to Hawaiian
Electric Company. Materials which do not burn, such as glass and
metal, are removed and may be recycled. The plant produces
approximately 8 percent of Oahu's electricity and, since it began
operations in May 1990, has processed about 600,000 tons of waste
per year, generating electricity which would otherwise have
required about 600,000 barrels of oil per year.
ELECTRICITY FROM LANDFILL GAS
During the 1990s, methane collected from the Kapaa landfill on
Oahu was burned to produce electricity. Heat from the turbine
exhaust was used to dry gravel.
BIOMASS FROM DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE
Although the sugar plantations on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii
are no longer in operation, there are "diversified agriculture" crops
being planted -- coffee, macadamia nuts, watermelons, trees,
flowers, and many others. Waste products from these operations
(and possibly even "energy crops") as well as wood chips, grease
trap waste, and other biomass materials, enable continued
electricity production from biomass at these locations.
REFERENCE: H-POWER: Honolulu Program of Waste and Energy
R e c o v e r y . http://swana.org/portals/0/awards/2014/Waste%20to
%20Energy/Honolulu%20_Waste-to-Energy.pdf

3. HONOLULU PROGRAM OF WASTE ENERGY RECOVERY
(H-POWER)
H-Power is a creative solution to for Honolulu's solid waste
disposal problem. Began operation in 1990, and is a one-of-a-kind
integrated facility and the only operating plant in the U.S. that
combines the best of reuse-derived fuel (RDF) technology and mass
burn (MBN) technology. H-Power has become critical to to
Honolulu's municipal solid waste management plan, reducing
Honolulu's dependence on imported oil through annually displacing
700,000 barrels of oil and decreasing the demand on the island's
only municipal landfill. Through this innovation, Honolulu has
become the country's leader in waste-to energy (WTE) conversion.
SOURCE: VIMEO. Video Presentation. https://vimeo.com/172944409
We encourage your mutual discussion and collaboration to move Maui forward towards
a bigger and brighter future.
Thank you very much
Aloha
Respectfully,
Clifton M. Hasegawa
President and CEO
Clifton M. Hasegawa & Associates, LLC
1322 Lower Main Street A5
Wailuku, Hawaii 96793
Email: clifhasegawa@gmail.com
Telephone: 808.419.5481
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliftonhasegawa