“By next quarter, we will be entirely grid indepen- dent and produce all our own electricity on-site. We do it all through solar, and we have Tesla power packs as battery storage. We are backed by biodiesel generators that use vegetable oil and pressed sunflower oil,” he said. “We have a carbon dioxide recovering system for our production, and it’s caught during fermentation. We are now producing 80 per cent of our C02 on-site. We love Hawaii, go to the beaches, look at the sky and see the paradise it is. All we want is to preserve it.”
Marrero hasn’t regretted his move to Maui and the beautiful business he has with his wife, and he considers himself part of the little family on the island. “People might have been skeptical of us at first, being from the mainland. But we always put our money where our mouth is, and we do what’s right for the area,” he said. “We pay taxes locally, create jobs, and we’re going to continue making opportunities for a long time to come.”
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