Hawaii Electric Light Rates, Bills and Service Area in 2025

Hawaii Electric Light reported 79,318 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 450 kWh a month on average at 45.80 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 4 Hawaii utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Hawaii Electric Light ranks 4 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Hawaii Electric Light has distribution equipment. That covers 1 county in Hawaii. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Hawaii Electric Light reported an average of 273 minutes without power per customer and 2.37 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 115 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Hawaii Electric Light had about 146 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Hawaii figure across its utilities was 202 minutes. One interruption lasting 115 minutes and 2.37 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 273 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Hawaii Electric Light reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 6,002 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 15,557 residential net-metered systems on the Hawaii Electric Light grid in 2025, with 93.2 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Hawaii, that review is done by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission.

Hawaii Electric Light is an investor-owned utility based in Hawaii.

By residential customers, Hawaii Electric Light ranks 2nd of the 4 utilities that report homes in Hawaii, with about 17.7% of the state's homes. Hawaii has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Hawaii Electric Light with its type, so the state average of 40.40 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Hawaii Electric Light lists distribution equipment in a single county, so its service area is easy to check against your address. 15,557 of its residential customers use net metering, or 196.1 per 1,000 homes, against 241.5 for Hawaii as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Hawaii with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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