About Us

Goals

Our primary goal is to become the leading producer and marketer of renewable energy in our target niche markets, such as Hawai'i.

Pacific West Energy, LLC is an integrated energy production and marketing company. It was formed in 2001 initially to market fuel ethanol, primarily in the Western United States, and to develop and construct, own, and operate electric, ethanol, and other energy production facilities in niche locations providing unique cost or revenue advantages.

The Company's targeted niche markets include the island of Kaua'i, Hawai'i. The Company intends to pursue the development of additional electricity, ethanol, biodiesel, and other energy projects in Hawai'i and other locations inside or outside the Western United States. The Company is currently developing the Kaua'i project.

The Kaua'i project entails the operation of an existing sugar mill, obtaining and expanding the cultivation of cane, leucaena and other biomass lands on Kaua'i to support the mill and the development, construction, and operation of a fuel ethanol plant and electricity production facility integrated into the mill. The Kaua'i electricity project is a 20 MW facility that is designed to produce electricity for export to the local utility, Kaua'i Island Utility Cooperative. The Kaua'i ethanol plant has been designed to produce fuel ethanol for sale in the Hawai'i motor fuel and electricity generation markets. In addition, the sugar mill is designed to produce sugar for local consumption, refining, and export. The Company is also developing biodiesel, algae-to-renewable fuels, solar, wind and other power projects to integrate into the Company's biomass facilities. These projects are being conducted by the Company both independently and in partnership with technology and other development partners. The Company's strategy is to create the world's first "integrated green-energy plantation," producing firm renewable energy from a variety of sources for the Company's own use and for sale to third parties. For additional information on Pacific West Energy's Kaua'i project, see Kaua'i Project.

The Company is also developing additional projects independent of the Kaua'i project, both in Hawaii and in other geographic locations.

Key Comapny Management

William Maloney is the founder and chief executive officer of the Company. Since 1998, Mr. Maloney has been working with ED&F Man Alcohols in the capacity of Director of Business Development. In this capacity Mr. Maloney has been responsible for the marketing of fuel ethanol in the Western United States and project development. He has been responsible for sales in excess of 60 million gallons of ethanol per annum and has been the primary person responsible for development of the Kauai energy project.

Mr. Maloney previously developed a 12 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Jamaica, beginning in 1993. He sold his equity interest in that plant to ED&F Man in 1998. From 1987 to 1998, Mr. Maloney served as the Managing Director of Tropicana Holdings Ltd., an 8,000 acre sugar estate and factory in Jamaica. Between 1984 and 1993 he also served in various capacities, including President, at Tropicana International Ltd., owners and operators of a 25 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Kingston, Jamaica. Mr. Maloney supervised all aspects of the entitlements, construction and operations of Tropicana’s ethanol production facility.

Douglas Vind, a Comapny director, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Ethanol Company. Western Ethanol Company, located in Orange County, California, is involved in the manufacturing and distribution of fuel ethanol throughout the Western United States. Mr. Vind has worked almost exclusively in the fuel ethanol industry since 1982. In addition, Mr. Vind has owned and operated a fuel ethanol manufacturing plant in Central America, as well as bulk wholesale fuel ethanol terminaling facilities in the United States. Western Ethanol Company has annual sales of fuel ethanol in excess of $45 million.

Mr. Vind is also involved in the development of alternative fuel legislation and regulatory activities in his capacity as Chairman of the non-profit California Renewable Fuels Council. Mr. Vind also serves as a Board Member of the Washington, D.C. based Renewable Fuels Association and participates on the RFA Technical Committee.

Scott Matsuura joined the Company in 2005 as Vice President. Mr. Matsuura was previously employed by Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. as its Manager of Governmental Affairs. Mr. Matsuura served in various positions during his 27-year career at A&B, including positions at Matson Navigation Co. and Matson Terminals, Inc., subsidiaries of A&B prior to positions at corporate headquarters in its Internal Audit Department, as Manager, Community Relations and Manager, Governmental Affairs. Mr. Matsuura’s experience has spanned all of A&B’s subsidiaries, marine transportation, agriculture, ground transportation, property management and development and financial investment.

Mr. Matsuura, guides the Company on legislative matters concerning the ethanol industry and has been critical in the industry’s efforts to foster a business friendly legislative environment. Mr. Matsuura has been a critical component in gaining the legislative support from the Hawaii State Legislature and the State Administration.
Mr. Matsuura is a lifelong resident of Hawaii.

For biographies of additional members of PacWest's management and board of directors, see Management & Directors.

Strategic Partners

Pacific West Energy’s primary strategic partners in its current projects are Kauai Island Utility Cooperative and ED&F Man Alcohol Inc, a subsidiary of ED&F Man Holdings Ltd., a privately held British trading company that has been in operation since the late 1700s, and Province Line Capital, a commodity trading company focused on agriculture and agriculture-related commodities, such as ethanol. The Company and its strategic partners also maintain close relationships with all major oil companies, including ChevronTexaco, Tesoro, and Shell, as major customers for the Company's marketed ethanol.