Hawaii's not doing bad on that front. They had to stop their solar energy program because so many people were selling back their excess electricity to the Hawaiian Electric Company ((HECO)) that it would have overloaded the grid and caused a blackout, on Oahu at least.

"Native Hawaiians" don't balk at geothermal either. Stuck up activists who don't like anyone who isn't from the Big Island((hawaii)) care, and only because its an idea that came from the mainland ((United States, where they are)). And the only reason its gaining popularity is because the so called native hawaiian movement is a kinda outdated and racist one, like the BLM of hawaii.

Not that it matters imo. The state's gonna be broker then broke cause it wants to build a monorail. An actual monorail, on the island of Oahu, because there's so many cars that it takes 3 hours to get from one part of the island to another with its traffic jams, for an island as small as Rhode Island. So the state, despite everyone voting that this was a bad idea, despite the fact it'd demolish some folks houses, despite that it had to take up agriculture land something everyone in Hawaii values a lot more then a Volcano on the Big Island, the city decided to do it anyway. It's been a year or so since construction began, and they've had to ask for a bailout already cause they ran out of money months into construction. Money from raised taxes that were supposed to pay for the entire project.

That's just 1 Hawaiian's opinion on the situation though. There's some more pressing matters imo then renewable energy.