The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected. 

Average Oʻahu home electric bills are up $60 since June 2025.

A Japanese rival wants build a new liquefied natural gas power plant and start a new regulated utility for Oʻahu, ending HECO’s 135-year monopoly.

The public comment period is the first step in the pre-review of JERA Co.’s proposal, pitched as a fossil-fuel bridge to a future of all-renewable resources.

Governor criticizes energy expert as biased, others defend him as sound and scrupulous.

The author is expected to publish a revised report after further review.

UPDATE: Author acknowledges the report contained an error in its solar cost calculations, but stands by the overall findings.

Executive order preserves the solar energy tax credit for commercial and industrial uses that lawmakers had capped.

More than 260 of Hawaiʻi’s commercial and industrial projects are at risk after Legislature cuts credits in 2026, undermining renewable resource goals.

By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say HECO can sidestep rules years in the making.