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The shipping company is asking the Hawai‘i Public Utilities Commission for the additional revenue to cover significant spikes in service costs, support critical investments in equipment and infrastructure upgrades and sustain vital interisland services. 

The moratorium was previously set to end Dec. 31.

Gov. David Ige has accepted the resignation of Randall Iwase, who will be leaving the Public Utilities Commission effective Dec. 28, 2018.

Gov. David Ige has nominated University of Hawai‘i energy specialist Jennifer “Jennie” Potter to the Public Utilities Commission.

The appeal challenged the PUC’s denial of Sierra Club’s request to intervene in a case involving a proposed agreement by MECO to buy power from the former HC&S’s coal-fired power plant.

This program offers a new option for customers installing a rooftop PV system combined with a battery energy storage system. Under “Smart Export,” a customer’s energy storage system will recharge during the daytime with energy captured from their PV system.

Attorney General Doug Chin announced that state circuit judge Rhonda Nishimura has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sandwich Isles Communications against the PUC.

HEI withdrew its applications for approval of a liquefied natural gas contract with Fortis Hawaii Energy Inc. as well as other plans…

The PUC concluded that the proposal for the $4.3 billion purchase of HEI by NextEra failed to demonstrate that the merger is “in the public interest.”