Consumer Advocacy – Public Utilities (DCA)

In this issue: Increasing number of utility scams during COVID-19 outbreak, COVID-19 Utility Update – End of the Moratorium, Utility Bill Assistance Programs.

Hawaiian Electric crews will be performing emergency work to replace a utility pole from 9 a.m. to 2p.m. along Ward Avenue where it intersects with Beretania Street. Two southbound lanes will be closed and traffic will be contraflowed. Turning lanes also will be impacted where Ward intersects with Beretania and Kinau streets. Motorists should drive ...
Read More Ward Avenue emergency utility work to affect traffic Friday, May 14

Hawaiian Electric is seeking public input on a strategy to increase rooftop solar and similar customer energy resources (CER) to the scale needed to reach the state’s clean energy benchmarks. CER includes customer-sited resources like rooftop solar and batteries, electric vehicles and emerging electricity management technologies. This document, “Customer Energy Resources for Hawaii” which has ...
Read More Customer Energy Resources (CER) Strategy (Docket No. #2019-0323)

The County of Hawai‘i and seven local nonprofits announced that they will be hosting a series of meetings with community and business leaders on a plan to provide $21 million in rent and utility assistance grants to residents impacted by COVID-19. The meetings will present current data from the Hawai‘i County Emergency Rental Assistance Program ...
Read More April 28-29 – Hawai‘i County Emergency Rental Assistance Program Meetings

Hawaiian Electric crews will be continuing to replace utility equipment in Manoa on Friday, April 9, and Tuesday, April 13, to Friday, April 16. Crews may return later in the month for additional equipment testing, as needed. Friday, April 9—Both directions of Manoa Road after Waakaua Street will be closed. Vehicles will not be able ...
Read More Traffic advisory: Manoa utility work continues & ‘Ewa to Wahiawa transformer delivery

In this issue: 988 Suicide Prevention Hotline, Hawaiian Electric’s Interconnection Process and Transition Plans for Retirement of Fossil Fuel Power Plants, COVID-19 Utility Update, Utility Bill Assistance Programs

The work will close lanes and restrict parking in the vicinity from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and traffic contraflowed: • Tuesday, March 30— A portion of the far right northbound lane of Manoa Road before Olopua Street (fronting Manoa Elementary School) will be closed. • Wednesday, March 31 — The northbound lane of lower ...
Read More Hawaiian Electric crews will be replacing utility poles and equipment in Manoa from Tuesday, March 30, to Thursday, April 1

  The Federal Communications Commission has recently adopted rules designating this new phone number for Americans in crisis to connect with suicide prevention and mental health crisis counselors. The transition, which will take place over the next two years, will result in phone service providers directing all 988 calls to the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline ...
Read More Coming in 2022: 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

On March 16th, a status conference was held to discuss Hawaiian Electric’s Initial Update regarding the AES coal plant transition plan. The Commission held  the status conference to (1) review Hawaiian Electric’s Initial Status Update regarding the transition plan for the retirement of the AES coal plant on Oahu, filed on March 5, 2021, in ...
Read More Status Conference to Discuss Hawaiian Electric’s Initial Update regarding the AES coal plant transition plan for Oahu (Docket No. 2021-0024)