HOST Park Assets
HOST Park’s assets make it an ideal clean energy test bed for almost all renewable energy technologies including geothermal.
There’s no other place in the world with a three-pipe seawater delivery system available on demand 24/7 pumping more than 20 million gallons a day.
Our other resources also provide an excellent base for pure and applied ocean-based projects.
RESOURCES
- Master permitted – CDUP – SMA – EIS
- Proximity to the Kona International Airport
- Land – 870 acres
- Ocean – 3290 acres research corridor
- High insolation
- <15″ of rainfall/year
- Class AA ocean waters
- 2 R&D campuses on a total of 9 acres
- 15,000 square feet office, lab and conference rooms
- Research Campus microgrid
SERVICES
- Three pipeline systems operating 24/7 and 365 days/year
- Deep Sea Water (DSW) from 2000ft and 3000 ft depth
- 10+ mile seawater distribution system
- Max DSW pumping capacity 43,400 gpm
- Surface Sea Water (SSW) from 80 ft depth
- Max SSW pumping capacity 55,600 gpm
- New meteorological station installed November 2012
- High-quality real-time and historical met data
- Co-location R&D and commercialization
- Outreach program
EXPERTISE
- Comprehensive Environment Monitoring Program
- Benchmark for ocean water quality analysis
- Biosecurity Management Plan
- 2011 Updated Master Plan
- Land dedicated to renewable, ocean and sustainable industries
- Green Economic Development Agency
- Hawaii Enterprise Zone – Tax benefits
- Technical Support (lab, engineering, electrical, mechanical)
- Distributed Energy Strategy (PDF)