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State boards · The Environmental Notice · Sept. 8, 2026

Microgrid at the State Department of Transportation Maui District Office Baseyard

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Location, as printed
650 Palapala Drive, Kahului, Maui
Tax map key, as printed
(2) 3-8-079:018
Applicant, as printed
State Department of Transportation (HDOT)
Comments due
September 22, 2026 (passed)
Area
Wailuku-Kahului (placed by the tax map key it prints)
The state's document
The Environmental Notice, Sept. 8, 2026 (PDF)

As the notice prints it

The award and use of Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) financial assistance to the State Department of Transportation (HDOT) to install a microgrid at the HDOT District Office baseyard on Maui. The microgrid will be installed on three existing buildings and will consist of electric vehicle charging stations, photovoltaic (PV) panels mounted on existing buildings, and a Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system. The project will also include limited trenching within the baseyard for installation of new electrical conduit.

Basis. Read from the issue's PDF by script (pipeline/fetch_environmental_notice.py), published by the State of Hawaiʻi Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; first on the record Sept. 19, 2026. Wording is the notice's; contact names, telephone numbers and email addresses are not carried. Corrections: the corrections log.