Consumer Advocacy – Public Utilities (DCA)

While in Hawaii most of us don’t have to deal with Artic blasts, odds are we know someone experiencing the icy chill of winter. Winter weather means scammers aren’t far behind with weather-related scams. Scammers know severe weather may have shut off your electricity, heat, and/or water and might pose as your utility company. They ...
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The Commission’s primary objective with this docket is to transparently review and track the status of Hawaiian Electric’s current projects, identify near-term interconnection process improvements to facilitate renewable projects under development, and elicit the best solutions to ensure a cost-effective retirement of the AES Plant, Kahului Plant, and other fossil fuel power plants, as needed. ...
Read More PUC OPENS DOCKET NO. 2021-0024 TO REVIEW HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INTERCONNECTION PROCESS AND TRANSITION PLANS FOR RETIREMENT OF FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS

Please join us for this year’s NCPW Virtual Consumer Fair! March 1-5, 12-1 pm daily. Get your workshop links at cca.hawaii.gov/ncpw The DCCA and USPS will host a virtual workshop every day of the week, March 1-5, from 12-1 pm HST, on Teams. Join us as fraud experts share their knowledge on how we can ...
Read More March 1st-5th – National Consumer Protection Week – Virtual Consumer Fair

Phone and Internet Discounts, New Performance-Based Regulatory Framework, Charge Ready Hawaii Pilot Project, PUC approves HWAC’s Request to Defer Study Costs, COVID-19 Utility Update