For more information contact: For Immediate Release
For Oceanlinx: Vanessa Neill, February 4, 2008
Ryan O’Keeffe or Andrew Holt
London: +44 (0)20 7251 3801
For Hawaiian Electric: Peter Rosegg
808-371-7474, peter.
rosegg@heco.
com
Oceanlinx to Provide...
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For more information contact: For Immediate Release
For Oceanlinx: Vanessa Neill, February 4, 2008
Ryan O’Keeffe or Andrew Holt
London: +44 (0)20 7251 3801
For Hawaiian Electric: Peter Rosegg
808-371-7474, peter.
rosegg@heco.
com
Oceanlinx to Provide Electricity from Waves for Maui
HONOLULU – At a press conference with Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle today,
Oceanlinx Limited, an Australia-based high-tech company, formally announced
plans to provide electricity to Maui Electric Company from Hawaii’s first wave
energy project.
“A week ago we announced the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Initiative, an
unprecedented partnership between the State of Hawai‘i and U.
S.
Department of
Energy to transform our state into one of the world’s first economies based
primarily on clean energy resources,” said Governor Lingle.
“This innovative and
environmentally based wave energy project is an ideal example of using
Hawai‘i’s abundant natural sources of energy to reduce our dependence on
imported fossil fuel and
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