Oahu Hawaiian Electric to increase the customers by 4.7% from today

Hawaiian Electric Company today announced that the Commission, the Hawaii public company, which aimed at increasing customer Oahu from 4.7 percent in the amount of $ 61 billion U.S. dollar annual net income from today.


Licensing is one of the decision of the PUC has in the past month and announced from the examination of the adjustment of the height of the estimates for the implementation of the decision back.

The impact of the increase depends on the nature of the customer and the actual use of electricity. A residential customer Ø 600 kilowatt hours per month is the monthly electricity bill by $ 6.48, with an invoice of $ 140.05.

The increase is to pay for major works to improve and increase the operating costs in recent years that the inspections more lines and power poles, the increase in the size of the trees around electrical lines, and the increase of services for power plants that are difficult functioning and energy production reduced in the course of time the edges of stock.

Since it is a decision that the capital will continue on the details of the Hawaiian Electric demand and added to a final decision. Hawaiian Electric will provide additional information to assist in the examination. The important thing is still outstanding is the timetable for a possible increase in aid for the cost of a new plant for the production of biodiesel will soon be operating in the industrial Campbell.

Hawaiian Electric original request submitted a year ago was $ 97 million for the increase in revenue. The request was the subject of an investigation by the department for the protection of consumers and the U.S. defense minister, in the case. Hawaiian Electric predict an agreement with the two in most issues in the case of an increase of 79.8 million U.S. dollars or 6.2 percent. The outstanding issues, including the demand of 86.8 million U.S. dollars or 6.7 percent. The PUC will examine the request before giving its final decision. If a final increase is lower at the end the difference will be refunded, with interest of customers.