A 22-kilowatt photovoltaic system has been installed at the Kualapuçu school on Molokaçi to help cut the facility’s electricity bills.
ProVision Solar Inc., which designed and installed the system, said it should produce about 20 percent of the school’s daily power needs and can be expanded to cover more than half of Kualapuçu’s needs.

Marco Mangelsdorf, ProVision president, said a number of businesses on Molokaçi as well as numerous homeowners have installed photovoltaic systems to escape the island’s high electricity costs. He said Kualapuçu’s installation is the largest of any public school in Hawaiçi.