A recent letter to the editor compared the cost of utility scale electricity production with the ratepayer cost of about $0.33 per kilowatt hour (“Clean energy transition needs to happen now,” Star-Advertiser, March 16). The wholesale vs. retail comparison overlooks significant components of the electricity we depend on, including transmission, grid management, maintenance, installations, administration and an allowable return to Hawaiian Electric investors.
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