Centipede Encounter

555 I visually check the logs I pick up for centipedes but they can hide in the bark cracks and can easily be missed with can lead to some sudden unwanted excitement. I've been cutting mango trees and due to a wet winter, some logs have stayed piled on the ground for a few weeks before I could load them up to haul away to the Kauai County green waste disposal collection yard. It's a win-win for us islanders so we don't have a pile of stuff rotting away or have to burn on our property. Instead, it is turned into mulch or used as fuel to make electricity here on Kauai. Kauai has a mix of electrical generation sources, solar, fuel oil, biomass burning, hydroelectric and from private residential excess form solar and wind generation. For those interested in our power source enjoy the following information. KIUC data from 2018: In an effort to reduce its power cost, decrease its use of imported fossil fuels and increase the amount of energy generated from Kauai's own resources, KIUC has launched a strategic initiative to generate 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. As of the end of 2017, more than 40 percent of KIUC's electricity was generated through renewable sources, namely biomass, hydropower and solar. This is the latest data. By early 2019, roughly 50 percent of the electricity generated on Kauai will come from a mix of renewable resources: solar, hydropower and biomass. That's up from 8 percent in 2010. The resulting increase in renewables allowed KIUC to reduce its use of fossil fuels by more than 33 percent, or roughly 15 million gallons annually. On most sunny days, 90 percent or more of Kauai's daytime energy needs are met by renewable sources. KIUC's solar resources currently consist of 51 megawatts of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and 22 megawatts of distributed photovoltaic.

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