#Hawaiian Electric Industries

Eric Yeaman has been selected by the state Probate Court as the newest member of Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha’s Board of Trustees. He will fill the vacancy created upon the closing of Robert K.W.H. Nobriga’s term, which ended on June 30, 2025.

House and Senate conference committees are recommending final passage of House Bill 1001, which provides more than $800 million in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for deposit into the Maui wildfires settlement fund for a “timely and compassionate resolution” for fire survivors. The bill commits the state to spending $400 million in fiscal 2026 and […]

Independent investors have acquired non-controlling interests in American Savings Bank in separate transactions from Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., the bank announced today. Among other things, HEI said the sale will give it flexibility in making its Maui wildfire settlement contributions.

The US House Committee on Energy & Commerce is holding a subcommittee fact-finding hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C., to investigate the role of electric infrastructure in the “catastrophic Maui fire” in Lahaina on Aug. 8 that killed at least 97 people.

The company outlined a list of factors related to the Aug. 8, 2023 events, saying that at around 3 p.m., “power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours” when a second fire in the afternoon began in the same area—in a field near Lahaina Intermediate School.

Today, the County of Maui filed a lawsuit against Maui Electric Company, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaiʻi Electric Light Company and Hawaiian Electric Industries for civil damages allegedly caused to the County’s public property and resources as a result of recent Maui fires, including fires in Lahaina and Kula.

Hawaiian Electric Industries commits to donating $100,000 in wildfire relief efforts on Maui, aiming to support individuals, families, and community groups impacted by the wildfires.

The Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation, on behalf of HEI, Hawaiian Electric and American Savings Bank, presented Maui United Way with a corporate contribution of $40,000 for the 2021-2022 Live United campaign.

REGENT, the company behind the all-electric seaglider, is partnering with Mokulele Airlines and Pacific Current to explore the build-out of a seaglider transportation network for passengers and freight in the State of Hawai‘i.

Hawaiian Electric Industries report said utility reached a renewable portfolio standard of 38.4% in 2021, which is ahead of schedule for achieving Hawai‘i’s statutory goal of 40% by 2030.

Constance “Connie” Lau, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries, is retiring after 15 years as the leader of the parent company of electric utility Hawaiian Electric and community bank American Savings Bank.

In 2020, average passenger EVs were found to consume the equivalent of 66 gallons of gasoline, seven times less fossil fuel than their gasoline-powered counterparts, which used 455 gallons. Average EVs also cut emissions in half, two metric tons of CO2 versus four metric tons of CO2.

Hawaiian Electric and Aloha United Way launched the “Hawai‘i Utility Bill Assistance Program,” a statewide program that aims to help Hawaiʻi residents who are financially affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and are struggling to pay their utility bills.

The donation will support additional shipments this week and in May to supplement Maui Food Bank’s regular monthly delivery of food to Moloka‘i. More than 33,000 pounds of food will be distributed by the Maui Food Bank to Moloka‘i residents in need through a $20,000 contribution from the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation.

Launched in March of this year, The Show Aloha Challenge focuses on serving vulnerable, homebound seniors nutritious meals from locally owned restaurants.

Maui Electric Company and the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation donated an electric vehicle to the Molokaʿi transportation program of MEO.

Maui Electric Company and the Hawaiian Electric Industries Charitable Foundation presented Smart electric vehicles to the University of Hawai‘i Maui College, Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui, and Maui Hui Malama.

NextEra Energy and Hawaiian Electric Industries today announced the termination of their plans to merge, effective immediately.

During a press conference held this afternoon, Gov. David Ige expressed the state’s opposition to the proposed NextEra Energy Inc. purchase of Hawaiian Electric Industries and is recommending the state Public Utilities Commission reject the deal as it is currently proposed.

Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. said today that its shareholders have approved the merger agreement with NextEra Energy Inc. announced Dec. 3, 2014. Approximately 90 percent of shares voted were in favor of the proposed merger.