How changes to Hawaiʻi’s home battery program could hinder its energy transition

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Honolulu Civil Beat. Hawaiʻi’s main utility is poised to radically revise how it compensates households for the power their batteries send to the grid, a move critics fear will stunt the potential for using that energy to prevent blackouts and hinder the state’s transition to 100 percent clean energy.