Hawaii has set the most aggressive environmental target of any state in the nation, 100% renewable energy by 2045. The goal is that much more ambitious because, as an island state, Hawaii does not have the luxury of relying on its neighbors for power supplies. The PUC’s performance-based rate proceeding is meant to support the state in that transition.
The PUC took one of the first steps in that direction in 2010 by decoupling utility earnings from higher levels of electricity sales as a means of encouraging greater efficiency and more efficient electricity use rather than higher volumes of electricity use.
