The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission opened Docket No. 2025-0284 on June 20, 2025 to analyze current electric utility disconnection practices to consider whether disconnection policy revisions are appropriate. In its opening Order No. 41766, theCommission recognizes that electricity is a basic necessity for living and finds it important to address increased disconnections. The Commission will ...
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The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission opened Docket No. 2025-0241 to determine whether to modify the current Telecommunications Relay Services (“TRS”) carrier contribution factor and fund size effective July 1, 2025. Order No. 41683 proposes to: modify and decrease the existing carrier contribution of 0.0023 to 0.0019 for the 2025 TRS funding period and each period ...
Read More PUC Proposes to Decrease the Carrier Contribution Factor for the Telecommunications Relay Service Fund and Invites Comments From Active Telecommunication Carriers
All motor carriers that must file their 2024 Annual Financial Report (AFR) of Motor Carriers (Form 03-010) and pay their annual motor carrier fee on or before April 30. Failure to comply may result in the assessment of penalties and interest pursuant to HRS § 271-27(h) and (i), and HAR § 6-62-42(d), and suspension or revocation ...
Read More Motor Carriers Annual Financial Reports and Fees Due April 30
On January 30, 2025, the Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) issued Order No. 41531 instituting a proceeding to review Hawaiian Electric’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan (“WMP”) that was filed on January 10, 2025, in Non-Docketed Case No. 2023-04661. The Commission has determined that a formal docketed proceeding is necessary to evaluate whether the WMP aligns with the ...
Read More PUC Issues Order for Proceeding to Review Hawaiian Electric’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan
Pursuant to Order No. 40218 issued on August 31, 2023, the Public Utilities Commission (“Commission”) directs that all Commission-regulated electric, gas, telecommunications, water, and wastewater public utilities located on Maui, or providing utility service on Maui (“Maui Utilities,” or “Maui Utility,” individually), suspend disconnections of electricity, gas, telecommunications, water, and wastewater services beginning from the ...
Read More Public Utilities Commission Order Suspending the Authority of Regulated Utilities to Terminate or Disconnect Services Due to Non-Payment for All Commission-Regulated Maui Utilities
Originally posted on May 18, 2023. A scheduled system outage will occur beginning Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 4:30 pm and ending June 19, 2023 at 9:00 am. No filings or payments will be accepted or processed during this time. Processing of filings and payments will resume on June 19 at 9:00 am in the ...
Read More Scheduled system outage June 15, 4:30 pm to June 19, 9:00 am for launch of new IT system. No filings or payments will be accepted.
The federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) application is open from June 1 to June 30, 2023. LIHEAP provides qualifying low-income households with a one-time allocation that is applied as credit towards their electric bills to help pay for energy costs. Applications are handled by each county’s Economic opportunity council. To review qualifications and ...
Read More Energy Assistance Program application period opens June 1.
The Public Utilities Commission published a new webpage about the Interconnection Dispute Resolution Process (“IDRP”), established on April 18 in Order No. 39163. This new IDRP aims to expedite resolutions of technical issues that arise during the development of projects selected in Hawaiian Electric’s Stage 3 Request for Proposals. Learn more on our new webpage ...
Read More PUC Establishes new Interconnection Dispute Resolution Process (“IDRP”)
The Public Utilities Commission added a new CDMS Project webpage with information about its new IT project, the Case and Docket Management System (CDMS). CDMS will replace the PUC’s existing DMS with a modern, user-friendly and integrated content and case management workflow solution that can accommodate docketed and non-docketed processes and documents Learn more on ...
Read More PUC Publishes new webpage on CDMS, its IT overhaul project
The Public Utilities Commission added a new webpage with key information describing Hawaiian Electric’s Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) process, which is a collaborative planning effort led by Hawaiian Electric to determine the grid’s needs and how to meet them as the State transitions to 100% renewable energy. Hawaiian Electric filed a Draft IGP Report on ...
Read More PUC PUBLISHES NEW WEBPAGE ON INTEGRATED GRID PLANNING AS HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC FILES DRAFT REPORT