Kunia Camp, Hawaii
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{{distinguish|Kunya (disambiguation){{!}}Kunya}}
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Kunia Camp (also called Kunia) is an unincorporated community on the island of Oahu in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies along Hawaii Route 750 northwest of downtown Honolulu, the county seat of Honolulu County.Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 30. Its elevation is 883 feet (269 m).{{gnis|365354}}, Geographic Names Information System, 1981-02-06. Accessed 2008-04-08. It has a post office (under the name of Kunia), with the ZIP code of 96759.{{Cite web |title=Zip Code Lookup |url=http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?cnty=cnty&zip=96759}}
Government and infrastructure
The community was a plantation village for a Del Monte pineapple plantation. The plantation closed in 2006; two years later, the community's land was given to the Hawaiian Agriculture Research Center, allowing its residents to keep their leases.{{Cite news |last=David |first=Mari-Ela |date=May 29, 2008 |title=Kunia Camp Residents Welcome Plan to Preserve Plantation |work=Hawaii News Now |url=http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/8393742/kunia-camp-residents-welcome-plan-to-preserve-plantation |access-date=January 20, 2015}} The community was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.{{Cite web |title=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/01/14 Through 12/05/14 |url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20141212.htm |access-date=January 20, 2015 |publisher=National Park Service}}
In March 2019, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved 174 Power Global to build a 52 megawatt with 208 megawatt-hour storage solar farm plus battery storage project on a 352-acre site owned by Robinson Kunia Land LLC at Kunia called Ho{{okina}}ohana Solar 1. HECO will buy electricity from this solar-plus-storage project at 10 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).{{Cite news |last=Cocke |first=Sophie |date=March 25, 2019 |title=Bill to put solar farms on prime ag land elicits stiff opposition |work=Star-Advertiser |location=Honolulu |url=https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/03/25/hawaii-news/bill-to-put-solar-farms-on-prime-ag-land-elicits-stiff-opposition/?HSA=e92f0e8281aec9a577e54a7277e000cf538daedf |access-date=September 11, 2019}}{{Cite news |last=Wu |first=Nina |date=March 27, 2019 |title=PUC approves 6 additional solar-plus-storage systems in Hawaii |work=Star-Advertiser |location=Honolulu |url=https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/03/27/hawaii-news/puc-approves-6-additional-solar-plus-storage-systems-in-hawaii/ |access-date=September 11, 2019}} According to PUC filings, FCHQC Development, a joint venture between Forest City Sustainable Resources and 174 Power Group, owns 174 Power Group and has Larry Greene as the project manager of Ho{{okina}}ohana Solar 1. As of March, 2019, this project is in prime agricultural zone A land, does not have a permit for construction, and faces stiff opposition from the Hawaii Farm Bureau, the Hawaii Sierra Club, the state of Hawaii's Office of Planning, and the Hawaii State's Department of Agriculture. Dean Okimoto and Richard Ha, two farmers who recently stopped their crop operations, said that better partnerships with farmers will allow farmers to cohabit the land so that farming melded with renewable-energy projects can boost the agricultural land's financial sustainability.
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Category:Populated places on Oahu
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Honolulu County, Hawaii
Category:Populated places on the National Register of Historic Places
Category:Company towns in Hawaii
Category:Unincorporated communities in Honolulu County, Hawaii
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