Hagadone Printing Sets Solar Energy Standard

The $2.7 million project will allow Hagadone to contribute excess energy produced back to the Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) grid, and is expected to pay for itself in about six years, saving Hagadone more than $160,000 in electricity costs in the first year alone.

The 1,408-panel array spreads across 25,000 square feet of existing roof space at Hagadone’s building on 274 Puuhale Road in Honolulu to power a quarter of the energy used by its administrative and printing operations.

Hagadone also underwent a state-of-the art energy retrofit of its building that included switching to a new type of frictionless chiller