After years of planning and $26 million, the Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program would never happen. From 1982 to the early 1990s, this program aimed to diversify Hawaii’s energy sources and lay a 150-mile submarine transmission power cable in the ocean from Puna, Hawaii island, to Maui and Oahu, the more populated islands. However, this cable program was found to not be financially feasible.
The Geothermal Collection
- Alternative Approaches to the Legal, Institutional and Financial Aspects of Developing an Inter-Island Electrical Transmission Cable System
- Blue Ocean Preservation Society v. Watkins : the national environmental policy act and it’s threshold issues
- Geothermal Program Planning Workshop in November 1990
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : September, 1990
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program presentation slides
- Hawaii’s geothermal and deep water cable programs
- Hawaii’s geothermal future and the deep water cable
- Master Plan : Hawaii Geothermal / Cable Project : Community concerns to be reflected in geothermal planning
- Proceedings geothermal development and applications in Hawaii : seminars presented October 23-25, 1984 during American Energy Awareness week
- Project Status – Hawaii Geothermal/Undersea Cable Project
- Summary of Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program
Hawaii Deep Water Electrical Transmission Cable Demonstration Program : Phase I
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II — Undersea Cable Technology
- Cable catenary study
- Cable construction specification
- cable handling equipment concept study
- cable vessel subsystem feasibility criteria
- Laboratory test protocol
- Phase II reassessment of cable vessel availability
- Test cable selection
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II — Cable Route & Environmental Analyses
- conceptual design study : integrated control system for the HDWC cable laying
- High frequency wave analysis for the Alenuihaha Channel
- wind characteristics and general relationship between trade wind speeds and wave heights in the Alenuihaha Channel : final report
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II-A
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II-B
- Executive Summary
- task 1 : Environmental review plan
- task 3 : cable materials corrosion and abrasion testing
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II-C
- Executive Summary
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program Phase II-C
- task 1, environmental assessment
- task 1 : environmental constraints to use of a sea electrode in a submarine transmission cable system in Hawaii
- task 1 : hydrogen sulfide in sediments along the preferred submarine cable route
- task 4 : Second bottom roughness survey
- task 5 : Overland transmission line corridor study Puna to Kohala, Island of Hawaii
- task 5 : Submarine vs. overhead routing : A cost comparision for Molokai
- task 5 : Submarine vs. overhead routing : A cost comparison for Molokai
- task 8.4 : Environmental design criteria for cable deployment operations in the Alenuihaha Channel
Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program — Phase II-D
- Executive Summary
- task 1 : Side-scan sonar and swath bathymetry mapping survey of the preferred cable route from Maui to Oahu, Hawaii
- task 2 : Visual and photographic survey of a preferred Hawaii Deep Water Cable route
- task 3 : Maui slope near-bottom current measurement program in the Alenuihaha Channel (October 1986 through November 1987)
- task 4 : Abrasion-corrosion studies
- task 5 : Revised basic design criteria data book
- task 5 : Bibliography
- task 5.4 : Feasibility of using underground electrical cables along portions of the overland route of an inter-island cable system in Hawaii
- task 5.4 : Feasibility of using underground electrical cables along portions of the overland route of an inter-island cable system in Hawaii
- task 5.5 : A short-based sea electrode system for a submarine electrical transmission cable system in Hawaii
- task 7 : Development of friction test specimen for the HDWC system
Cable Route & Environmental Analyses
- Analysis of Seafloor Surveys, Inc. precision bottom data between Maui and Oahu in determination of a potential cable route
- Conceptual design appendices A-N (Extracted from Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program Bottom Roughness Survey of the Alenuihaha Channel May 1986.)
- HDWC program : preferred route analysis
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : bottom roughness survey of the Alenuihaha Channel
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : plan for the second bottom roughness survey cruise of the Alenuihaha Channel, June, 1986
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : visual impact analysis of proposed 300 kVdc line
- Pohoiki Geothermal Transmission Line Routing Study
Undersea Cable Technology
- Application of new technologies to interisland power cables for Hawaii
- Cable systems : laying a submarine cable means throwing a fortune overboard
- Draft report Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program (HDWCP) : Cable repair rationale
- Fiber optics in the ‘optimum’ undersea electro-optical cable
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable (HDWC) Program : cable overloadability study
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable (HDWC) Program : Selection and design of laboratory testing equipment
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : at-sea test plan
- Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program : draft cable laying control and data acquisition systems final design report
- Laboratory testing of a HVDC submarine power cable for the Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program
- A review of Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program and geothermal development in Hawaii
- Technology transfer from the Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program
Economic and Financial Analyses
- An economic analysis of the Kilauea geothermal development and inter-island cable project
- Fiscal year 1987 through 1990 funding requirements : Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program
- Hawaii Geothermal Project : overview of status, development approach and financial feasibility assessment
- HDWC economic evaluations — a summary
- Request for proposals : economic analysis of Hawaii’s proposed geothermal-inter-island cable project
- Undersea cable to transmit geothermal-generated electrical energy from the island of Hawaii to Oahu : economic feasibility
Environmental Aspects
- Cable plan far behind schedule foes seek alternative: conservation
- Environmental assessment / preparation of an environmental impact statement : Pohoiki geothermal transmission line
- Environmental assessment of Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program at-sea test
- The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the National Environmental Policy Act for the Geothermal/Cable Development Project
- Environmental Impact Statement for Pohoiki Geothermal Transmission Line : Final.
- Hurdles for Cable: Environmentalist and Mother Nature
Governor’s Advisory Board (GAB)
- Brief for GAB on the Underwater Cable Transmission Project
- Geothermal exploratory mission to Japan : a report to the GAB on the Underwater Cable Transmission Project
- GAB on the underwater cable transmission project : preliminary report
- GAB on the Underwater Cable Transmission Project : September 1987
Requests for Proposal (RFP)
- Exhibits (Responses) to the RFP for the Geothermal/Inter-Island Transmission Project
- Geothermal/Inter-Island Transmission Project RFP
- Hawaiian Electric, Inc. Geothermal/Inter-Island Transmission Project RFP
- RFP for the geothermal/inter-island transmission project
- RFP for the Hawaii geothermal/interisland transmission project
- RFP : Development of a master plan, transmission line routing study, and environmental impact statement for Hawaii’s proposed geothermal/inter-island cable project
- RFP : economic analysis of Hawaii’s proposed geothermal-inter-island cable project
Historical Maps: Hawaii Geothermal/Cable Project Map Volume
Northern Big Island Environmental Data Maps
- cultural resources
- existing land use
- land ownership
- land regulation
- proposed land use
- sensitive biological resources
- utilities/transportation
- vegetation resources
Southern Maui Environmental Data Maps
- cultural resources
- land ownership
- land regulation
- land use and transportation
- sensitive biological resources
Historical Photographs
Historical Video
Related Topic Guides
Hawaii Administrative Rules
- (Chapter 185) Water and Land Development: Rules of Practice and Procedure for Geothermal and Cable System Development Permitting
Hawaii Revised Statutes
- (Chapter 196D) Geothermal and Geothermal Cable System Development
Search Strategies
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Subject Headings — Electric Cables, Lines, and Power: Electric cables | Electric cables–Corrosion | Electric cables–Environmental aspects–Hawaii | Electric lines–Environmental aspects–Hawaii—Puna | Electric lines–Environmental aspects–Hawaii–Underground | Electric lines–Hawaii | Electric lines–Hawaii–Finance. | Electric lines–Hawaii–Underground | Electric lines–Law and legislation–Hawaii. | Electric power transmission–Environmental aspects–Hawaii | Electric power transmission–Hawaii | Electric power transmission–Hawaii–Periodicals | Hawaii Deep Water Cable Program
Subject Headings — Interisland Cable: interisland | interisland cable
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– Alice Kim, Bibliographer
Updated: January 5, 2015
Created: September 2014
