Hawaii doesn't have natural gas plants though. The article says 70% of their energy comes from oil. I know they have diesel and coal plants too. They would hav

Hawaii doesn't have natural gas plants though. The article says 70% of their energy comes from oil. I know they have diesel and coal plants too. They would have to build LNG terminals, pipelines, and gas fired power plants on each island in order to use natural gas as a quickly dispatchable source of electric power. Each island in hawaii has it's own small electric grid. The challenge for Hawaii is running small grids with high percentages of uncontrollable generation. All of Europe is interconnected, so Germany can install as many solar panels that don't get any sunshine as they want and it is only ever going to be a sliver of the total generation on the system. The price of electricity in Germany is also 29 cents / kwh, 2nd highest in europe. That doesn't make it seem like a good model to me.