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EUR 720.60 For Business Accounts Only

Hawaiian Electric Company Inc.: In a worst-case scenario, wildfire liabilities could overwhelm the company as they did PG&E

While inverse condemnation will unlikely be applied in Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric's potential liabilities relative to its size could rival those of PG&E in a worst-case scenario.
Underlyings
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.

Hawaiian Electric Industries is a holding company with its subsidiaries principally engaged in electric utility, banking, and renewable/sustainable infrastructure investment businesses operating in the State of Hawaii. The company and its operating utility subsidiaries, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc.and Maui Electric Company, Limited are regulated electric public utilities that provide essential electric service to Hawaii's population through the operation of five separate grids that serve communities on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, and Maui, Lanai and Molokai. The company also owns ASB Hawaii, Inc. and its subsidiary, American Savings Bank, F.S.B., a financial institution in the State of Hawaii.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company

PG&E Corporation

PG&E is a holding company that conducts its business through Pacific Gas and Electric Company (Utility), a public utility engaged in the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to customers. The Utility generates electricity and provides electric transmission and distribution services throughout its service territory in northern and central California to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. The Utility provides natural gas transportation services to small commercial and residential customers and to industrial, commercial, and natural gas-fired electric generation facilities that are connected to the Utility's gas system in its service territory.

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