Mana Pacific

10/23/2024

Mana Pacific is a proud supporter of and technical expert for Blue Planet Alliance’s bi-annual Fellowship Program focused on helping islands get to 100% .

During the third Fellowship cohort in Honolulu earlier this month, our Finance Director, Olga Reym, presented innovative approaches to help fund renewable energy projects!



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10/22/2024

Aloha! It was fantastic to support, facilitate, and participate in Blue Planet Alliance’s third 100% Renewable Energy Fellowship cohort in Honolulu, Oahu earlier this month. This round welcomed ten new countries from the Pacific, Caribbean, and Atlantic: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Cook Islands, Curacao, Nauru, Rapa Nui, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Helena, Suriname, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This Fellowship Program invites leaders from the community, utility, regulator, and government to plan their energy transitions. Attendees learn from Hawaii’s experience passing their 100% renewable energy law in 2015 and how the state is reaching its goal, as well as share their own experiences, challenges, and successes at home.

Congratulations and thank you to Blue Planet Alliance and Brooklyn Story Lab for another successful week, and we are committed to continuing our support for this program. Mahalo!

10/01/2024

NYC Climate Week Recap! 🌏

It was a pleasure teaming up with Blue Planet Alliance and Brooklyn Story Lab for to drive forward our mission of accelerating the energy transition in the Pacific.

Our Policy and Project Developer, Sierra Jackovics, represented our team at various events. Highlights from the week include:
🔵 The Summit of the Future, co-hosted by Peace Boat US, Blue Planet Alliance, the Indian Ocean Commission, and the UN Permanent Missions of Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, and Kiribati, focused on capacity building in Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean islands
🟢 The UNGA 79 Science Summit, "Islands of the Future" hosted by Kinetik Ventures highlighted climate innovations in islands
🔵 Foreign Policy’s Energy Forum covered global investments in renewable energy infrastructure and the need to expedite climate finance to projects in developing countries, including in the Asia-Pacific region
🟢 Australian First Nations + Pacific Island Leaders = Climate Success, co-hosted by Groundswell Giving, The Graeme Wood Foundation, and The Myer Foundation, had island leaders share their visions of what needs to happen between now and COP31 in 2026, which may be co-hosted by Australia and the Pacific, to keep the world on track with their climate goals
🔵 Blue Planet Alliance’s annual Island Partnership Dinner brought together the organization's partners from the Pacific and Caribbean to share their work to expedite the successful transition to 100% by 2045

It was fantastic to collaborate with and welcome leaders throughout the week, including the new Permanent Representative of Tonga to the United Nations, Hon Ambassador Tone, as well as Tonga’s Speaker of Parliament and one of our development partners, His Lordship Fakafānua.

Our team at Mana Pacific is looking forward to continuing to execute our solar and battery storage projects in the Pacific region - for it is generating affordable, clean energy that will help break our world’s reliance on fossil fuels and make a considerable difference in turning back the clock on climate change.

09/25/2024

Participating in Friday's youth-led Climate Strike was a powerful kick-off to Climate Week in NYC! 🌏

Parading from Foley Square across the Brooklyn Bridge to Borough Hall, this strike demanded an end to the fossil fuel era and united people from around the world. To effectively transition to , we must hold funders, polluters, and leaders to their commitments and investments in climate and renewables.

It was fantastic to participate alongside our partners, Blue Planet Alliance and Brooklyn Story Lab.

08/26/2024

We are proud to partner with the Solomon Islands Mission of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church to provide solar power and battery storage to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. Our shared goal is to bring resilient, renewable solutions while reducing tariffs. 🇸🇧 ⚡️

After signing an MOU earlier this year, our team traveled to connect with our partners at the Mission and other local stakeholders, including Solomon Power, to advance this renewable energy project. We are grateful to have received such a welcome and look forward to our collaboration!

08/23/2024

Bula! During our recent trip this month to Suva and Nadi in , we had the opportunity to meet with the Permanent Secretary and our local partners, the Veiniu Island Development Corporation (VIDC), to discuss our solar project for the Yaqara development on the island of . We are honored to collaborate on this initiative and are pleased to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize our partnership. Vinaka. 🇫🇯

07/18/2024

Aloha, we are pleased to share that our Annual Benefit Report for 2023 has been completed and is now published for public review!

Unlike traditional corporate structures, benefit corporations are mission-driven to make positive social and environmental impacts their primary goal. As a Hawaiian sustainable business corporation, a type of benefit corporation, Mana Pacific is grounded in the founding purpose of generating social, environmental, and economic public benefits for the communities we serve.

These public benefits include but are not limited to:
🔹 Providing low-income or underserved individuals or communities with beneficial products or services;
🔹 Preserving and improving the natural environment;
🔹 Creating new job opportunities for local communities within the State as well as throughout the United States and beyond;
🔹 Upholding fair and progressive labor standards nationally and internationally;
🔹 Enhancing environmental protection and climate progress nationally and internationally

The annual Benefit Report outlines our strides in fostering sustainable development and accelerating the renewable energy transition across the Pacific.

In 2023, we expanded from our initial 5 project locations to actively working in over 12 countries and grew our project pipeline to over 275 MW of solar PV and 340 MWh of battery storage, a 450% increase from the end of 2022. In addition, we earned national recognition for our community solar projects in American Samoa and Moloka’i, as well as completed the initial stages of launching a new workforce development program to build local capacity in the renewable energy sector.

Read more about our work and impact in the full report linked here:

2023 Benefit Report Prepared for public review is our annual Benefit Report for 2023. Please provide any comments or feedback within 60 of initial publishing. This comment period will conclude on September 1st, 2024. Click to view 2023 Benefit Report Click to view 2022 Benefit Report

06/04/2024

Mālō e lelei, it's such an honor to be with Hon. Hu'akavameiliku, Prime Minister of Tonga, here in the Kingdom to discuss its transition to .

We are planning for a utility-scale solar plus storage project as well as robust workforce development. This will not only accelerate Tonga towards its 100% renewable energy target by 2035, but ensure a transition that maximizes local economic benefits and industry growth. ☀ 🇹🇴

05/30/2024

Last week, our Energy Policy and Project Manager Sierra Jackovics, joined by our Programs Management Director Olga Reym, presented at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. for the Community Power Accelerator Prize PitchFest!

As a part of Phase III of the Community Power Accelerator Prize, Sierra and Olga pitched two of our community solar projects to panels of investors. The first community solar project in Moloka'i, Hawaii, is 100% community-owned by the Ho'ahu Energy Cooperative Molokai and is being co-developed by our team at Mana Pacific and our partners at Shake Energy Collaborative. The second is an early-stage community solar project based in American Samoa with a goal of providing up to 60% bill savings for subscribers.

At the end of the PitchFest, Sierra and Olga won two of the three total awards available across all nine pitching teams - Best Community Engagement Plan and Most Captivating Presentation.

We extend a resounding thank you to the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for hosting us and organizing the event, as well as congratulations to all the other fantastic developer teams!

05/14/2024

Reflecting on last week's Blue Planet Alliance Fellowship Program in Honolulu to help 10 islands in the Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean get closer to 100% !

What a week, and many thanks to our partner Francois Rogers and the rest of the BPA team for making this happen. We at Mana Pacific are excited to continue working with all of the island attendees and assisting them with their .

Mahalo!

05/13/2024

At the end of the Blue Planet Alliance Fellowship Program last week, our Chief Engineer, Logan Weber presented and led a session on grid-stabilizing technologies for island grids to enable . He touched on , strategies for spinning reserve, power systems modeling, and grid controls, to name a few.

05/10/2024

Some snapshots of this week's 100% Renewable Energy Fellowship with Blue Planet Alliance co-hosted and supported by our team at Mana Pacific.

Joined by 10 islands, , , , , , , , , , and , we are providing pathways to deploy tangible solutions and assist every attendee with achieving their goals.

This week included, and was not limited to: modeling software workshops utilizing Xendee provided by ASU Laboratory for Energy And Power Solutions (LEAPS), resources for creative financing solutions from the private and public sector including examples from Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority, access to grid stabilizing technologies, and short-term and long-term action items for each community member, legislator, utility, and regulator present.

Thanks and shoutout to Francois Rogers for another fantastic fellowship week!