text: I have written several times in several fora--including Civil Beat--about the reasons why I think a third option should also be considered to either 1) perpetuation of the Hawaiian Electric utiities as forever customer-subsidized so-called "for profit" monopolies (and possibly taxpayer-subsidized as well, as the HEI utiliities scratch and claw to continue paying adequate dividends to their sharehholders, and obscenely excessive salaries to their executives, as HEI struggles in vain to avoid or delay its inevitable death spiral, or 2) conversion of the HEI utiities to non-profit customer and/or taxpayer ownership.  This third option would be intentional acceleration of the HEI death spiral by actively assisting all HEI customers to become as energy self-sufficient as possible, as rapidly as possible, on the most decentralized basis possible--which I think will become increasingly tech feasible AND cost effective moving forward, and well before our goal of 100% "renewable" energy by 2045