text: there is an incentive to produce power in an efficient and economical way. if you read their decoupling agreement with the puc you'll understand they have metrics to achieve and when they don't they aren't allowed their maximum potential. they basically end up throwing away money.  that being said, are they really producing power in an efficient and economical way? if you look at the month to month reports they average in the upper tier so according to the puc the answer would be yes. but is it actually true? well the puc had been running severely short-handed and have just recently staffed up. they need to start paying a little closer attention to how heco operates now that they don't have any excuses being understaffed. the puc has caught on to a lot of heco's shenanigans but not all of them. they should do an in-depth investigation sooner rather than later.
  
  
  about the wind farms, heco customers are still benefiting. the ppa rates are still lower than heco's own. but not meco's.