News Releases
December 18, 2014 – Hawaii made great progress towards renewable energy in 2014, report says (Pacific Business News)
December 8, 2014 – New fee on power bills to finance affordable green energy (Hawaii Tribune-Herald)
December 2, 2014 – Green infrastructure fee to appear on Hawaiian Electric bills this month (Pacific Business News)
December 2, 2014 – HECO adds new fee to bills, starting this month (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
November 19, 2014 – Hawaii paves the way with first green-energy ABS (International Financing Review)
November 18, 2014 – Hawaii is first US municipal to issue asset-backed green bond (Environmental Finance)
November 16, 2014 – Aloha! Hawaiian State Govt issues green ABS for solar: $150m, AAA in two tranches: 50m, 8yr, 1.467% + 100m, 17yr, 3.242%. An excellent example! (Climate Bonds Initiative)
November 5, 2014 – Debtwire GEMS article (untitled)
October 31, 2014 – Hawaii $150M sale first for GEMS program (Bond Buyer)
October 30, 2014 – Goldman Sachs, Citigroup head up Hawaii’s $150M green financing program (Pacific Business News)
October 30, 2014 – Hawaii says aloha to Goldman on green energy securitization (GlobalCapital)
October 29, 2014 – Hawaii plans $150M “green energy” bond (Asset Securitization Report)
August 7, 2014 – Hawaii targeting November for green energy securitization (Bond Buyer)
July 8, 2014 – Solar financing program warrants further scrutiny (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
June 9, 2014 – Hawaii green financing program heads to state regulators for approval. (Pacific Business News)