Natural gas offers modest gains, big risks for Hawaiʻi energy costs, says report

Switching Hawaiʻi's power plants from oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) may not deliver the dramatic drop in electricity prices that some proposals promise, according to a new analysis by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO), released April 14.


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