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STAR-ADVERTISER / DEC. 2
Randy Iwase, the chairman of the Public Utilties Commission and commissioner Lorraine Akiba listen to testimony at a hearing on the NextEra takeover of Hawaiian Electric Co. on Dec. 2.
Public Utilities Commission Chair Randy Iwase said Monday nine sets of confidential documents relating to the review of the proposed purchase of the state’s largest electric utility would be made public.
At the tenth of 12 hearings set aside for state regulators to review NextEra Energy Inc.’s proposed $4.3 billion purchase of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Iwase said NextEra and HEI would need to refile the documents. The PUC has twice closed its hearings to the public — once when NextEra Energy Hawaii President Eric Gleason was answering questions and once when Hawaiian Electric CEO Alan Oshima testified — to discuss confidential documents.
In preparation for the hearings, NextEra filed 60,000 pages of documents, and about 5 percent, or 3,000 pages, of those were marked confidential.
Gov. David Ige said Friday one of his disappointments with the current review is the high number of confidential documents submitted by NextEra and HEI.
Iwase made his announcement in response to requests to make public the confidential documents from the state Office of Planning, Sierra Club, the Division of Consumer Advocacy and Ulupono Initiative.
So they did try to hide the documents. Now that it is out, it is not confidential anymore.
Mr. Iwase has been a fair and prudent administrator. I am proud of him.
the conspiracy theorists are outraged!