Consumer Advocacy – Public Utilities (DCA)

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 ...
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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

Hawaiian Electric crews will be replacing a utility pole and related equipment along Kalaniana’ole Highway in Waimanalo on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 28-29. On both days, the work will close a single lane of Kalanianaole Highway in the Kailua-bound direction between Wailea and Pu’uone streets fronting the Waimanalo Post Office, and traffic contraflowed from 8:30 ...
Read More Traffic Advisory: single lane closure, Kalaniana’ole Highway in Waimanalo Jan. 28 & 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m

Many customers installing new rooftop solar systems will get to see their monthly electricity costs reduced faster under Quick Connect, a new Hawaiian Electric program that will accelerate the process for turning on new systems. The innovative new program aims to support customers and Hawaii’s solar industry during the COVID-19 economic downturn. For the next ...
Read More Hawaiian Electric speeds up rooftop solar interconnections

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY IN THE TIME OF COVID A webinar featuring several members of the Legislature and moderated by Bob Toyofuku of Pacific Law Institute. This webinar is now being made available to the public and worth watching for anyone interested in the 2021 session. Watch it live on thinktechhawaii.com at 9:00 am Friday 1/15. Or on ...
Read More How the 2021 Legislative Session will be Conducted

The PUC is hosting a series of regular monthly meetings to discuss developments in the DER Program Track.  These meetings will begin 9 AM through 11 AM on the third Wednesday of each month from November 2020 through March 2021. Meeting notice. WebEx Link for Meetings: Online Link: https://hpuc.my.webex.com/hpuc.my/j.php?MTID=ma91fef9088c32bf1ba921fbd89a53be7 Meeting number (access code): 126 958 3907 Meeting ...
Read More January 20 – DER Program Track Monthly Meeting

Suspension of Termination/Disconnection of Regulated Utility Services Why should I pay my electric or gas bill or begin a payment plan during the shut-off moratorium? Proposed Transfer of Indirect Control of Hawaiian Telcom Launiupoko Irrigation Co., LLC, Temporary Rate Increase Hawaii-American Water Company requests to defer the costs incurred by performing the Zone of Mixing ...
Read More Issue #42, January 2021