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Hawaiian Electric outlines targets, tougher community scoring and new pre‑bid meetings for IGP RFP
Summary
Hawaiian Electric presented island‑specific energy and firm‑capacity targets and proposed shifts to the Integrated Grid Plan RFP: a 50/50 price/non‑price split, higher weighting and separate scoring for community benefits, required pre‑bid developer meetings to streamline interconnection, and new wildfire‑resilience provisions; issuance now targeted for Feb. 2025.
Hawaiian Electric told a Public Utilities Commission technical conference it is seeking 750 gigawatt‑hours and 350 megawatts of grid‑forming resources on Oahu, plus 81 megawatts of firm capacity on Oahu and 435 gigawatt‑hours with 60 megawatts of firm capacity on Hawaii Island as part of the Integrated Grid Plan request for proposals, with Maui targets left for later rounds. The company described the IGP RFP as a rolling procurement intended to run in multiple tranches until identified grid needs are met.
The utility said it reworked evaluation criteria to give more influence to non‑price factors. Historically priced elements counted for 60% of initial evaluations; the draft IGP RFP moves that to a 50/50 split and reduces the number of non‑price subcriteria while increasing weights on community engagement. For the first time the RFP separates a community benefits package from community…
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