07-15-2026, 05:51 PM
This fixed cost roughly equals the average retail price of electricity on the mainland..."
Another fixed cost for HECO is paying for tree trimming under electric lines every two years, because they choose to cut branches 6 inches below the wires, not several feet or to the ground so trees won’t immediately grow back.
I knew someone in central Oregon where ranches are 20 miles apart. The electric company there runs 20 miles of poles and wires for a single customer and charges them less per kWh than we pay. How many customers does HECO have in the 20 miles from HPP to Hilo?
More than one.
Another fixed cost for HECO is paying for tree trimming under electric lines every two years, because they choose to cut branches 6 inches below the wires, not several feet or to the ground so trees won’t immediately grow back.
I knew someone in central Oregon where ranches are 20 miles apart. The electric company there runs 20 miles of poles and wires for a single customer and charges them less per kWh than we pay. How many customers does HECO have in the 20 miles from HPP to Hilo?
More than one.