Hawaii Performance-Based Regulation and Integrated Grid Planning proceedings
Seeking alternative regulatory mechanisms intended to focus utilities on performance and desired outcomes.
LPDD Recommendation: “State PUCs should restructure rates away from the traditional cost-of-service model.”
LPDD Recommendation: “State PUCs should participate in negotiations concerning the restructuring of utilities away from vertically integrated, investor-owned monopolies focused on selling more kWh to alternative models such as community-owned energy systems or energy service companies decoupling generation from distribution and creating new mandates for working with independent generators.”
See also: community solar and virtual net metering examples, listed under “Ownership Models."