Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc. on May 31 said it has completed the 50-MW Schofield Generating Station that will run on a combination of biofuels and conventional fuels.
The plant is on eight acres of land at the Schofield Barracks that the U.S. Army has leased to the Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. subsidiary. The facility will feed into Oahu's electric grid and is expected to cut down oil usage by about 26,000 barrels per year.
Hawaiian Electric, the project's owner and operator, signed a three-year contract with Pacific Biodiesel Technologies for the annual supply and delivery of biofuel to the Schofield plant.
