[martin1b]

So, they shut down a coal plant to rely on...another coal plant for power generation. How exactly did it 'replace' the last coal plant?

[bryanlarsen]

What other coal plant?

[ceejayoz]

What? No. They're replacing it with solar generation.

> With 565 megawatt-hours of storage, the battery can’t directly replace the coal plant’s energy production, but it works with the island’s bustling solar sector to fill that role. “We’re enabling the grid to add more clean renewable energy to the system to replace the energy from the coal plant,” Keefe said.

[Night_Thastus]

Given the small area of the islands and the less-than-flat terrain, I'm surprised they went solar. Have hydro turbines been considered?