Comment: "...Hawaii consumers can at least take comfort that the PUC blocked the NextEra deal, perhaps preventing our current reality from persisting generations into the future."

Really? That is the sum total of what was accomplished by the year long process to review of the NextEra offer to acquire HECO and identify more preferable alternatives?

Since the rejection of the offer the silence of the Governor, Representative Lee and the rubber stamp Public Utility Commission on how Hawaii will reach it's renewable goals has been deafening

The local politicians know what they are against, but what exactly are they in favor of? The PUC's "indication of inclinations" is quite frankly a joke. Both the Governor and Representative Lee claimed that there were other, better suitors for Hawaiian Electric. Odd that they have not surfaced since the NextEra offer was rejected. 

The true result of the entire process was to confirm that the state of Hawaii is an insular, xenophobic economic backwater.