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HawaiÊ»i Island police have initiated a missing person case in connection with a swimmer last seen in waters off Wawaloli Beach ‘OTEC Beach.’ In response an 11:49 a.m. call reporting a possible swimmer in distress, Kona Patrol Officers made contact with a a 26-year-old man, who reported that he had been swimming with an acquaintance, […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff Fire crews were alerted to a man floating in the ocean Saturday afternoon off OTEC Road and were able to recover the body. The man – believed to be in his 40s – reportedly went to pick opihi around 9 a.m. and was spotted around 3:30 p.m. floating face down about 100 […]

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff The Draft Environmental Assessment has been published for OTEC International’s proposed 1 megawatt demonstration plant at the NELHA. OTEC International LLC (OTI), a Maryland limited liability company, proposes to construct and operate an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Innovation and Demonstration Facility on land leased from the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii […]

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OTEC International LLC (OTI) was selected to build a one-megawatt demonstration plant by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaiʻi Authority (NELHA) to test the full power cycle of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) to produce electricity. Above is a proposed 100MW plant off the coast of Oahu.

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