HECO taps REG for new biodiesel contarct

In Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) has chosen Renewable Energy Group to supply biodiesel for its 110MW Campbell Industrial Park Generating Station.

The company currently supplies biodiesel under a contract that expires in July 2012 but with the new three-year contract it will supply 3 million to 7 million gallons. The contract will have to be approved by the Public Utility Commission who negated a previous HECO contract for biofuels saying that the price was too high for taxpayers to pay.