Since February, Hawaiian Electric has supplied customers participating in its “shift and save” pilot program with bill credits to keep residential fees capped at no more than $10 over usual monthly rates. This “bill protection” period is scheduled to sunset at the pilot’s six-month mark, rapidly approaching at month’s end.

Customers taking part in the initiative, and whose time-of-use charges regularly surpass the $10 cushion, can opt out of shift-and-save at hawaiianelectric.com/shiftandsave. No action is required to continue in the program that nudges ratepayers to shift electricity usage to daytime hours, when cheaper solar energy is abundant.