What is the Rebuild Hawaii Consortium?

The Rebuild Hawaii Consortium is a statewide forum established in 1998 to encourage Rebuild America partnerships; Federal, State, and Local governments; schools, colleges, and universities; utilities; and community and private business groups in Hawaii to share information on energy and resource development.

It is a major achievement to gather so many dedicated people together in one room so that they can talk to each other. Despite our wired world, it's still hard to beat a face-to-face. By discussing energy efficiency, economic development, re-investing energy savings in the community, media and outreach, and a host of other Rebuild America-related topics, the Consortium finds connections that help leverage the many resources of the members to affect better, bigger results in energy efficiency projects.

The Consortium is truly a model of consensus-building in the best sense: members work together to develop project proposals, reach a consensus, and then move forward together to find financial and other resources to implement them. The Consortium's primary modus operandi is to promote energy efficiency projects as catalysts for economic development in the underserved small business and low-income housing sectors.