High gas prices created a recent windfall for the state’s only oil refiner.

The power isn’t just going out more frequently. It’s staying out for longer.

HECO has spent millions of dollars to strengthen its electric grid in recent years. Lala still wiped out power for most of the state.

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.