Seawater Investors, LLC is an investment company and the Manager of Wind &
Water Green Fund, LLC. WWGF made two investments in late 2007:
- Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC, through Honolulu Seawater Investors, LLC, and
- Kaheawa Wind Power, LLC, through Kaheawa Wind Power Ventures, LLC.
Following several years of design, engineering, and permitting work, including an Environmental Impact Statement, the Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning project is planned to commence construction at the end of 2011, and to begin serving downtown building owners 18 months later. The project will consist of a 63 inch diameter seawater intake pipe, extending four miles offshore to a depth of about 1700 feet, with water being pumped into a cooling station on Kakaako to cool a network of fresh water pipes, which would extend under the streets to the major office buildings in downtown Honolulu. This system will not only reduce Hawaii's oil consumption by 178,000 barrels a year, but also cut greenhouse gasses, and significantly reduce the use of fresh water by downtown buildings. Similar clean, green, energy saving systems are in existence in Europe and Canada.
The Kaheawa Wind project on Maui already has 20 wind turbines operating and providing around nine percent of the electricity needs on that island.