Fellows mentioned in this story: Shelee Kimura, Cohort V

From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

Cutting out coal from O‘ahu’s power generation mix next month is going to generate somewhat of a jolt to household and business electricity bills.

Hawaiian Electric forecasts that the shutdown of a 30-year-old AES Corp. power plant fueled by coal on Sept. 1 will result in a $15 — or 7% — increase in the monthly cost for a typical residential customer using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

The increase, which amounts to 3 cents per kilowatt-hour, is expected because the utility company will initially rely on more power produced from oil, which costs more than coal.

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