Hawaii's largest solar block goes online

The sun was shining brightly in Mililani on Tuesday as officials welcomed the the state’s largest collection of solar farms, a trio of sun-powered projects that will generate enough electricity to light up nearly 18,000 homes.
Hawaii Gov. David Ige joined officials with Hawaiian Electric Co. and developer Clearway Energy Group for a Hawaiian blessing amid rows and rows of solar panels at Mililani Solar II project.
Commercial operations at the three projects at Kawailoa, Waipio and Mililani were launched Tuesday following the blessing.
Together, the projects are home to more than 833,000 solar panels generating 110 megawatts of power, estimated to make up for the belching of 1.2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over 20 years.