Utility to issue new unambitious geothermal RFPPower lines in Hawaii (source: flickr/ Quinn Dombrowski, creative commons)Francisco Rojas 30 Sep 2014HELCO cuts from 50 MW to 25 MW the geothermal aspiration of the project on Big Island of Hawaii and shifts location in a recent energy plan announced by the company. It seems like HELCO, which has been harshly criticised for its 50 MW RFP a while back, as reported by ThinkGeoEnergy s now again playing some delay tactics. The RFP cut now in half and located in a different location, clearly does not seem to be tailored to get a real project going. With electricity prices being as high as they are in Hawaii, geothermal would be an option to bring down prices and to become independent from fuel needing to be shipped to Hawaii. There are even reports that prices of a recently accepted biofuel project were higher than bids provided under the earlier 50 MW geothermal RFP.