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Maui Electric rolls out tiered rates

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Real Estate Agent with Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers HRE# 58089 - RS

Maui Electric rolls out tiered rates

Starting Jan 12 2011 Maui Electric Company (MECO) began implementing their new tiered rates for residential customers.  The 3 tier system will reward those who use less energy per month, and encourage energy conservation.  The rates range from 9.8 - 11.1 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), and other charges will apply.  A typical monthly bill is about $199/600 kWh, which actually comes to about 33 cents per kWh.

power lines on Maui

In the future, voluntary time-of-use rates will also encourage consumers to shift their energy usage to off-peak hours when generation reserves are greater.  This will really help when more renewable energy is fed into the system by way of PV and wind power.  Hawaii is striving to become less dependent on imported fuel and embracing alternative energies.

off-peak hours

If you're ready for an alternative to paying high electricity prices, have you considered living off-grid on Maui?  Let me know if you have any questions about the off-grid lifestyle, as we've been doing it for decades.  It can be very rewarding to supply your own power.

Georgina M. Hunter

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Comments (5)

Sussie Sutton
David Tracy Real Estate - Houston, TX
David Tracy Real Estate for Buyers & Sellers

Last night on House Hunters this couple was looking at home that had these water tanks in Hawaii. My husband remarked that they were an eye sore.

I told him free water sounds pretty good to me. And Texans use to use the same system in the 1800's and early 1900's. Especially in Galveston and Austin Texas.

I told him that concrete 10x10 rooms were built into the ground and a little house above like maybe 4-feet and it to had a roof and water was cycled into this systern home and then used in the home for daily stuff like washing clothes, dishes, bathing and drinking water!

Feb 14, 2011 03:22 PM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTORĀ®, CRS
Fathom Realty Washington LLC - Tacoma, WA
South Puget Sound Washington Agent/Broker!

This takes a lot of practice to get use to running your dishwasher and drying your clothes late at night but it is worth it...

Feb 14, 2011 07:21 PM
Barbara-Jo Roberts Berberi, MA, PSA, TRC - Greater Clearwater Florida Residential Real Estate Professional
Charles Rutenberg Realty - Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Safety Harbor

It is so long overdue that those that use less power get rewarded for it! I am all for it!

Feb 15, 2011 10:56 AM
Doug Anderson
Tucker Associates Real Estate Services - Danville, CA
Bay Area Real Estate Views

We have had the 3 tier system from PG&E in the Bay Area for a while now. With little kids (extra clothes & dishes), a pool, aquarium and home office it always adds up.

Feb 15, 2011 12:25 PM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

Sussie - it makes perfect sense to me.  More of us could be recycling rain water.  In the future I bet we'll see more of it.

Paul - As we all get in sync with the power fluctuations, it will benefit all of us.

BJ - I agree, let's encourage less power usage, or at least more sensible usage.

Doug - I'm glad to hear that your area already does this, and I hope it pays off for you.

Thanks for your comments!

Feb 16, 2011 07:44 AM