Letter: Higher energy rates OK with more accountability
A customer criticizes Hawaiian Electric for requesting rate increases despite the customer's household size shrinking and bills continuing to rise.
Our Hawaiian Electric bill once averaged about $700 a month for a household of four, plus one tenant. Today, with only two of us and one tenant, our bill routinely exceeds $1,000. Our household shrank, our electric bill didn’t. Yet Hawaiian Electric is asking customers to pay more.
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