Hawaii Electric Light (Hawaii Island) commercial electricity rates

• Average commercial price, 202543.09¢per kWh, all commercial customers
• vs Hawaii average+19%state commercial average 36.31¢
• Commercial customers11,4762nd largest of 4 in Hawaii
• Average use2,704 kWha month per commercial customer
• Average bill$1,165a month per commercial customer
• Since 2015+31%from 32.80¢ per kWh
• Outages273 mina year per customer · US average 124

Hawaii Electric Light (Hawaii Island) is an investor-owned utility serving 1 county in Hawaii. Among the 4 Hawaii utilities in EIA’s 2025 sales data with 500 or more commercial customers, it is the 2nd largest, with about 19% of the state’s commercial customers. EIA lists it as Hawaii Electric Light Co Inc.

Hawaii Electric Light commercial electricity prices, 2015 to 2025

In 2015 Hawaii Electric Light billed its commercial customers an average of 32.80¢ per kWh. In 2025 the figure was 43.09¢, so it rose 31% over 10 years. The average for all commercial customers in Hawaii rose 35% over the same period. The highest year was 2022, at 46.31¢. Between 2024 and 2025 it fell 6.4%.

Average use and average bill are the utility’s commercial sales and revenue divided by its commercial customers and by twelve. The bill is an all-in figure: energy, delivery, demand and fixed charges together. A few very large customers pull both averages up, so most businesses use and pay less than the average.

Residential, commercial and industrial prices at Hawaii Electric Light

In 2025 the average commercial price at Hawaii Electric Light was 5.9% below the residential figure and 18% above the industrial one. Larger customers take power at a higher voltage and use it more steadily, so at most utilities the average falls from residential to commercial to industrial. Which class an account falls in is the utility’s decision, and the line between commercial and industrial is drawn differently from one utility to the next.

How Hawaii Electric Light’s commercial rates are set

Hawaii Electric Light is investor-owned, so its rates are set in cases before the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission and published in a tariff, which is a public document. A commercial account is billed on a rate schedule, chosen by the size of the account and the voltage it takes power at, and a schedule usually combines a fixed monthly charge, a charge per kWh and, above a certain size, a demand charge on the highest rate of draw in the month. The schedule code is printed on the bill. There is no competitive supply market for ordinary commercial accounts in Hawaii, so the levers are the schedule, the peak and the amount used.

Meters, time-varying rates and net metering at Hawaii Electric Light

EIA counts 11,013 commercial meters at Hawaii Electric Light in 2025, and 10,478 of them (95%) are advanced meters (AMI), which record use at least hourly and report it to the utility at least daily. Of the rest, 159 are automated-reading (AMR) meters, which send a reading to the utility for billing only, and 376 are standard meters. An advanced meter is what makes interval data possible, and interval data is what shows when a building’s peak demand happens.

At Hawaii Electric Light, 1,087 commercial customers were on a time-varying rate in 2025, about 9.5% of its commercial customers. A time-varying rate charges more in some hours than in others, so when a business uses power matters as well as how much. The kinds Hawaii Electric Light reports offering commercial customers are time-of-use pricing.

EIA records 742 commercial net-metered generating systems at Hawaii Electric Light in 2025, with 21.7 MW of capacity between them: about 65 for every 1,000 commercial customers. Net metering credits a customer for power its own system sends to the grid; the terms are in the utility’s tariff.

How reliable is Hawaii Electric Light’s electric service?

Hawaii Electric Light customers went without power for an average of 273 minutes in 2025, excluding major storms, with about 2.37 interruptions per customer. The average across U.S. utilities reporting the same way is 124 minutes. With major storms counted the figure was 379 minutes. This utility reports on a different measurement standard, so the comparison is only approximate. These are averages over every customer of every class, so they describe the system and not any one street.

Where Hawaii Electric Light serves

EIA records Hawaii Electric Light serving customers in 1 Hawaii county: Hawaii. A county can be shared between utilities, so this does not tell you who serves a given address. The utility that serves an address is the one named on its bill.

Other utilities in Hawaii

The average each billed its commercial customers in 2025. The Hawaii page has the state’s own figures and every utility with 500 or more commercial customers.

• Hawaiian Electric (34.67¢)

What these figures can and cannot tell you

• They are averages over every commercial customer. A utility whose commercial customers are mostly large averages fewer cents per kWh than one serving mostly small shops, so a lower figure can mean larger customers and not a lower rate.
• They are not a rate schedule. None of these figures is a charge printed in Hawaii Electric Light’s tariff, and nothing here works out a bill from one. The tariff index lists the utilities whose filed schedules are quoted on this site.
• They are annual and final. EIA publishes utility figures once a year. The Hawaii page carries the state’s trailing 12 months, which is more recent and still preliminary.

For one building, the cost estimator gives a range by building type, size and state, and price by utility sets every utility side by side. Commercial vs residential vs industrial compares the classes in every state.

Data: every year of these figures, for this utility and every other with a page, is in one CSV, free to use with credit to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and this site. To cite this page: Hawaii Electric Light commercial electricity rates, CommercialElectricityRates.com, from EIA Form EIA-861 final 2025 data.

Common questions about Hawaii Electric Light

What is the average commercial electricity rate at Hawaii Electric Light?

Hawaii Electric Light billed its commercial customers in Hawaii an average of 43.09¢ per kWh in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is 19% above the Hawaii commercial average of 36.31¢. It is the utility’s commercial revenue divided by its commercial sales, so it describes the whole class and is not the rate on any one schedule.

How much is the average commercial electric bill at Hawaii Electric Light?

About $1,165 a month in 2025, on average use of about 2,704 kWh a month. That is Hawaii Electric Light’s commercial revenue divided by its 11,476 commercial customers. A few very large accounts pull the average up, so most businesses pay less than this.

Have Hawaii Electric Light’s commercial electricity rates gone up?

The average Hawaii Electric Light billed commercial customers rose 31% between 2015 and 2025, from 32.80¢ to 43.09¢ per kWh. The Hawaii commercial average rose 35% over the same period.

How reliable is Hawaii Electric Light’s electric service?

Hawaii Electric Light customers averaged 273 minutes without power in 2025, excluding major storms, against a 124-minute average for U.S. utilities reporting the same way (EIA).

Does Hawaii Electric Light use smart meters for businesses?

EIA counts 10,478 advanced (AMI) meters among Hawaii Electric Light’s 11,013 commercial meters in 2025, which is 95%. An advanced meter records use at least hourly, which is what makes interval data and time-varying rates possible.

Is this the rate my business will pay Hawaii Electric Light?

No. It is an average over every commercial customer, from a corner shop to a campus. What one business pays depends on its rate schedule, how much it uses and how hard it draws at its peak. The schedule code is printed on the bill, and the schedule itself is in Hawaii Electric Light’s tariff.