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==Nearby facilities and installations== The immediate vicinity of Kalaeloa, which extends over the southwestern tip of the island of [[Oahu]], includes [[Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point]], [[Barbers Point Light (Hawaii)|Barbers Point Lighthouse]], [[Kalaeloa Airport]], Campbell Industrial Park, including [[AES Hawaii Power Plant]], [[List of oil refineries#United States|Hawaii Refinery]] owned by [[Par Pacific Holdings|Par Petroleum Corporation]]<ref>{{cite news|author1=Duane Shimogawa|title=Par Petroleum completes purchase of Tesoro Hawaii refinery|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/2013/09/25/par-petroleum-completes-purchase-of.html|access-date=12 March 2015|work=Pacific Business News|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=25 September 2013}}</ref> to the southwest and the Barbers Point Harbor. Remnants of the old base remain, such as the streets named after aircraft carriers (i.e. Yorktown, Lexington, etc.),<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.aloha.net/~msmoses/2002/092199.htm |title=Letter from state representative Mark Moses to the Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission |date=September 21, 1999 |first=Mark |last=Moses |access-date=March 11, 2020 }}</ref> chapels, a post office, and the [[Navy Exchange]] which reopened as an indoor [[go-cart]] track in January 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/variety-of-tenants-at-barbers-point/ |title=Variety of Tenants at Barbers Point |date=August 10, 2011 |magazine=Hawaii Business |first=Victoria |last=Wiseman |access-date=March 11, 2020 }}</ref> In 2017, the state of Hawaii under the Kalaeloa Authority within the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) rejected a plan{{efn|The vote was seven against and two for.}} to allow SunStrong II LLC to lease 19 acres and build a 5-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm north of the Kalaeloa Heritage Park.<ref name=SolarFarms2017>{{cite news | last = Mykleseth | first = Kathryn | title = State agency rejects Kalaeloa solar farm plan | url = http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/09/07/business/state-agency-rejects-kalaeloa-solar-farm-plan/?HSA=69bb1178235561340fba670ef2c9f48ae51db7c7 | work = [[Honolulu Star-Advertiser|Star-Advertiser]] | location = [[Honolulu]] | date = September 7, 2017 | access-date = September 7, 2017}}</ref> Aloha Solar Energy Fund II is leasing 24 acres of HCDA land near the Kalaeloa Airport to build a 5-megawatt photovoltaic solar farm.<ref name=SolarFarms2017/> The United States Navy supplies power to Kalaeloa.<ref name=SolarFarms2017/> SunStrong II's project included a 12-kilovolt line extension to Hawaiian Electric Co.'s (HECO) grid which would have allowed HECO an opportunity to provide power to the Kalaeloa district.<ref name=SolarFarms2017/>
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