A email sent to me by Ed Wagner Senators & Representatives, On June 12, John Carroll called into the Jeff Davis - Solar Guy - radio show on KGU AM760 to talk about the current status of our Breach of Public Trust lawsuit again the State of Hawaii, Governor Abercrombie, and the HECO monopoly. I recorded their discussion, but the file is about 14MB, too large for some email systems so I have provided a dropbox link where the 15 minute long file can downloaded by anyone who cares to listen to it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent/u/68368447/Lawsuit/Davis-Carroll-Jun12-2014.mp3 I encourage the solar folks to pay close attention to what Mr. Davis says regarding their lack of support for our lawsuit and for UH folks to pay attention to what John says briefly about PURPA without specifically mentioning the word. It is time for the solar industry and other individuals and businesses to step up to the plate. John cant be expected to finance this effort alone. He has done his part to get the lawsuit accepted by the court, much to the consternation of the defendants, and much to everyones surprise, so now it is your turn to support his continued efforts to help all of you and all ratepayers of Hawaii. Our politicians might just learn something for reflection and contemplation, and some of you can examine your conscience for all the wrongdoings you have committed against the public for whom you were elected to serve instead of serving your false god, Wolf Electric Industries. The time has come to rid ourselves of the dead weight in the House and Senate Energy Committees and on the 5th floor of the Capitol and find someone who can serve the people for a change. It is time to remove the dead weight elsewhere too, like in the useless, toothless, worthless DCA that has a history of supporting, protecting, and perpetuating the monopoly to the detriment of the public. The PUC has a similar sordid history, but it has managed somehow to grow in some teeth and backbone somewhat in the past year, but still insists on giving the monopoly chance after chance, after chance, after chance. Enough is enough already! It is time to pull the plug on the monopolys life support system and convert it to publicly owned, non-profit power. It is also time for PEIS folks at DOE to wipe the slate clean, throw away their current document, and start over again. Just disregard everything the utility has said and start listening more to the people who insist on having publicly owned, non-profit power coops like those elsewhere in the country. We must also ramp up our geothermal energy resources like Iceland has done ( and hydro ) for over 50 years, and generate hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles being brought to market next year by 3 manufacturers. Residents of Iceland only pay 5c / kWh while businesses pay 3c and industry pays less than a cent. A recent BizJournal story claims that the DOE is giving HECO $500,000 from Recovery funds to help it upgrade the grid, when in fact, it is only giving it that money for more sensors to monitor its crumbling, dilapidated grid, not help it upgrade the grid. It squandered our fees and surcharge money on excessive dividends, excessive executive compensation, and outright incompetence, and should be forced by a PUC order to cut its dividend by 50% to upgrade the grid at its own expense, not at the expense of ratepayers. Most mainland utilities only have a dividend half of HECOs dividend, with a few exceptions I noticed. Whats up with its request to sell more stock between HECO, MECO, HELCO, and HEI in docket 2014-0090? It sounds like it is fudging the numbers to survive or is it running some sort of ponzi or other scheme to prevent bankruptcy? bizjournals/pacific/news/2014/06/11/federal-government-invests-500k-to-help-upgrade.html In discussions with friends, I suspect it is costing HECO between $500,000 and $800,000 just to upgrade the grid on my street for about 35 homes, and I know bids have been submitted to do similar work in Aiea, Hawaii Kai, Windward, and more, because the entire grid in in shambles just like the utility itself is in chaos, still living and trying to operate and survive with its dinosauric, 19th century mentally challenged mindset. All the monitors in the world will not help until the actual grid - the cables - are upgraded. Most are 40-50 years old, directly buried in the ground. HECOs death spiral continues. Off Wall Street thinks that its stock is overpriced, and worth only $15 a share, and yet, HECO has about $70 million of its own stock in the pension fund. Thats scary. I will no longer waste my time contacting anyone is Washington. This is the last message for them. I gave them a deadline of June 1 to help us, and they have failed miserably by ignoring our plea for help with flimsy excuses. Washington cant solve the simplest, most basic of problems for the country so how can we expect them to help us 5,400 miles away? Most politicians have minimal to nonexistent ethical standards in my personal book of life. I dont know how most of them sleep at night knowing how they have betrayed the public trust all for money and power that they cant take with them to their graves. They are so short sighted. Maybe they think they are immortal gods like our utility monopoly thinks of itself, expecting everyone to bow their heads before them on bended knee in idolatrous worship like Wolf Electric Industries expects everyone to do. As far as I am concerned now, the Washingtonians I contact are all in collusion with the State Legislature, the Governor, the DCA, and yes, even the PUC, and the utility monopoly to support, protect, and perpetuate this inept, negligent, incompetent, unethical, unscrupulous, crooked company in its ongoing fleecing and financial rape of our people because of its insatiable lust for and idolatry of money and power. The utility monopoly will continue to profiteer off the backs of our people, some burning candles at night and cooking with wood because they cant afford to pay for electricity, until we convert it to public, non-profit power, something which the Legislature has talked about doing for the past 30 years and which retired Executive VP, Robbie Alm, stated on Capitol TV on January 29, 2013, that HECO will cooperate fully with that conversion process. I suspect he was forced into retirement for making that bold, off the cuff, unapproved statement. Who knows, maybe Dick Rosenblum is being forced into retirement also. The dominos seem to be falling one by one. Who is next? HEI CEO, Constance Lau perhaps? Malama Pono, Ed Wagner
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:27:20 +0000