Form 10-Q
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

 

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2007

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Exact Name of Registrant as

Specified in Its Charter

 

Commission

File Number

 

I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.

HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, INC.   1-8503   99-0208097

and Principal Subsidiary

 

HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.   1-4955   99-0040500

State of Hawaii

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

900 Richards Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. --- (808) 543-5662

Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. ----- (808) 543-7771

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not applicable

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Large accelerated filer  x            Accelerated filer  ¨            Non-accelerated filer  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Large accelerated filer  ¨            Accelerated filer  ¨            Non-accelerated filer  x

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark whether Registrant Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS:

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuers’ classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

 

Class of Common Stock

  

Outstanding July 30, 2007

Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (Without Par Value)

   82,523,125 Shares

Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. ($6-2/3 Par Value)

   12,805,843 Shares (not publicly traded)

 


 


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Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Form 10-Q—Quarter ended June 30, 2007

INDEX

 

         Page No.

Glossary of Terms

   ii

Forward-Looking Statements

   iv
  PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION   

Item 1.

  Financial Statements   
  Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries   
  Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited)—three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    1
  Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited)—June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006    2
  Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited)—six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    3
  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited)—six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    4
  Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)    5
  Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries   
  Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited)—three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    15
  Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited)—June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006    16
  Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholder’s Equity (unaudited)—six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    17
  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited)—six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006    18
  Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)    19

Item 2.

  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations    39
 

HEI Consolidated

   39
 

Electric Utilities

   45
 

Bank

   65

Item 3.

  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk    70

Item 4.

  Controls and Procedures    71
  PART II. OTHER INFORMATION   

Item 1.

  Legal Proceedings    71

Item 1A.

  Risk Factors    72

Item 2

  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds    72

Item 4.

  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders    72

Item 5.

  Other Information    73

Item 6.

  Exhibits    74

Signatures

   75

 

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Form 10-Q—Quarter ended June 30, 2007

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

 

Terms

  

Definitions

AFUDC

   Allowance for funds used during construction

AOCI

   Accumulated other comprehensive income

ASB

   American Savings Bank, F.S.B., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HEI Diversified, Inc. and parent company of American Savings Investment Services Corp. (and its subsidiary, Bishop Insurance Agency of Hawaii, Inc.). AdCommunications, Inc. (dissolved in May 2007) is a former subsidiary.

CHP

   Combined heat and power

Company

   Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including, without limitation, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., Maui Electric Company, Limited, HECO Capital Trust III (unconsolidated subsidiary), Renewable Hawaii, Inc., HEI Diversified, Inc., American Savings Bank, F.S.B. and its subsidiaries, Pacific Energy Conservation Services, Inc., HEI Properties, Inc., HEI Investments, Inc., Hycap Management, Inc. (in dissolution), Hawaiian Electric Industries Capital Trust II (unconsolidated subsidiary), Hawaiian Electric Industries Capital Trust III (unconsolidated subsidiary) and The Old Oahu Tug Service, Inc. Former subsidiaries include HEIPC (discontinued operations, dissolved in 2006) and its dissolved subsidiaries.

Consumer Advocate

   Division of Consumer Advocacy, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of the State of Hawaii

D&O

   Decision and order

DG

   Distributed generation

DOD

   Department of Defense -- federal

DOH

   Department of Health of the State of Hawaii

DRIP

   HEI Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan

DSM

   Demand-side management

EPA

   Environmental Protection Agency -- federal

Exchange Act

   Securities Exchange Act of 1934

FASB

   Financial Accounting Standards Board

Federal

   U.S. Government

FHLB

   Federal Home Loan Bank

FIN

   Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No.

GAAP

   U.S. generally accepted accounting principles

HECO

   Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., an electric utility subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and parent company of Maui Electric Company, Limited, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., HECO Capital Trust III (unconsolidated subsidiary) and Renewable Hawaii, Inc.

 

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS, continued

 

Terms   

Definitions

HEI    Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., direct parent company of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., HEI Diversified, Inc., Pacific Energy Conservation Services, Inc., HEI Properties, Inc., HEI Investments, Inc., Hycap Management, Inc. (in dissolution), Hawaiian Electric Industries Capital Trust II (unconsolidated subsidiary), Hawaiian Electric Industries Capital Trust III (unconsolidated subsidiary) and The Old Oahu Tug Service, Inc. Former subsidiaries include HEI Power Corp. (discontinued operations, dissolved in 2006).
HEIDI    HEI Diversified, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and the parent company of American Savings Bank, F.S.B.
HEIII    HEI Investments, Inc. (formerly HEI Investment Corp.), a subsidiary of HEI Power Corp.
HEIPC    HEI Power Corp., a formerly wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., and the former parent company of numerous subsidiaries, the majority of which were dissolved or otherwise wound up since 2002, pursuant to a formal plan to exit the international power business (formerly engaged in by HEIPC and its subsidiaries) adopted by the HEI Board of Directors in October 2001. HEIPC was dissolved in December 2006.
HEIRSP    Hawaiian Electric Industries Retirement Savings Plan
HELCO    Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., an electric utility subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
HPOWER    City and County of Honolulu with respect to a power purchase agreement for a refuse-fired plant
IPP    Independent power producer
IRP    Integrated resource plan
KWH    Kilowatthour
MECO    Maui Electric Company, Limited, an electric utility subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
MW    Megawatt/s (as applicable)
NII    Net interest income
NPV    Net portfolio value
O&M    Operation and maintenance
PPA    Power purchase agreement
PRPs    Potentially responsible parties
PUC    Public Utilities Commission of the State of Hawaii
RHI    Renewable Hawaii, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
ROACE    Return on average common equity
ROR    Return on average rate base
SEC    Securities and Exchange Commission
See    Means the referenced material is incorporated by reference
SFAS    Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
SOIP    1987 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended
SOX    Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
SPRBs    Special Purpose Revenue Bonds
TOOTS    The Old Oahu Tug Service, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.
VIE    Variable interest entity

 

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report and other presentations made by Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) and Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO) and their subsidiaries contain “forward-looking statements,” which include statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, and usually include words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “predicts,” “estimates” or similar expressions. In addition, any statements concerning future financial performance, ongoing business strategies or prospects and possible future actions are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties and the accuracy of assumptions concerning HEI and its subsidiaries (collectively, the Company), the performance of the industries in which they do business and economic and market factors, among other things. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance.

Risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements and from historical results include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

   

the effects of international, national and local economic conditions, including the state of the Hawaii tourist and construction industries, the strength or weakness of the Hawaii and continental U.S. real estate markets (including the fair value of collateral underlying loans and mortgage-related securities) and decisions concerning the extent of the presence of the federal government and military in Hawaii;

 

   

the effects of weather and natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and the potential effects of global warming;

 

   

global developments, including the effects of terrorist acts, the war on terrorism, continuing U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, potential conflict or crisis with North Korea and in the Middle East, Iran’s nuclear activities and potential avian flu pandemic;

 

   

the timing and extent of changes in interest rates and the shape of the yield curve;

 

   

the risks inherent in changes in the value of and market for securities available for sale and pension and other retirement plan assets;

 

   

changes in assumptions used to calculate retirement benefits costs and changes in funding requirements;

 

   

increasing competition in the electric utility and banking industries (e.g., increased self-generation of electricity may have an adverse impact on HECO’s revenues and increased price competition for deposits, or an outflow of deposits to alternative investments, may have an adverse impact on American Savings Bank, F.S.B.’s (ASB’s) cost of funds);

 

   

capacity and supply constraints or difficulties, especially if generating units (utility-owned or independent power producer (IPP)-owned) fail or measures such as demand-side management (DSM), distributed generation (DG), combined heat and power (CHP) or other firm capacity supply-side resources fall short of achieving their forecasted benefits or are otherwise insufficient to reduce or meet peak demand;

 

   

increased risk to generation reliability as generation peak reserve margins on Oahu continue to be strained;

 

   

fuel oil price changes, performance by suppliers of their fuel oil delivery obligations and the continued availability to the electric utilities of their energy cost adjustment clauses (ECACs);

 

   

the ability of IPPs to deliver the firm capacity anticipated in their power purchase agreements (PPAs);

 

   

the ability of the electric utilities to negotiate, periodically, favorable fuel supply and collective bargaining agreements;

 

   

new technological developments that could affect the operations and prospects of HEI and its subsidiaries (including HECO and its subsidiaries and ASB and its subsidiaries) or their competitors;

 

   

federal, state and international governmental and regulatory actions, such as changes in laws, rules and regulations applicable to HEI, HECO, ASB and their subsidiaries (including changes in taxation, environmental laws and regulations, the potential regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and governmental fees and assessments); decisions by the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Hawaii (PUC) in rate cases (including decisions on ECACs) and other proceedings and by other agencies and courts on land use, environmental and other permitting issues; required corrective actions, restrictions and penalties (that may arise, for example, with respect to environmental conditions, renewable portfolio standards (RPS), capital adequacy and business practices);

 

   

increasing operation and maintenance expenses for the electric utilities, resulting in the need for more frequent rate cases, and increasing noninterest expenses at ASB;

 

   

the risks associated with the geographic concentration of HEI’s businesses;

 

   

the effects of changes in accounting principles applicable to HEI, HECO, ASB and their subsidiaries, including the adoption of new accounting principles (such as the effects of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 158 regarding employers’ accounting for defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans), continued regulatory accounting under SFAS No. 71, “Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation,” and the possible effects of applying Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Interpretation No. (FIN) 46R, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities,” and Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 01-8, “Determining Whether an Arrangement Contains a Lease,” to PPAs with independent power producers;

 

   

the effects of changes by securities rating agencies in their ratings of the securities of HEI and HECO and the results of financing efforts;

 

   

faster than expected loan prepayments that can cause an acceleration of the amortization of premiums on loans and investments and the impairment of mortgage servicing rights of ASB;

 

   

changes in ASB’s loan portfolio credit profile and asset quality which may increase or decrease the required level of allowance for loan losses;

 

   

changes in ASB’s deposit cost or mix which may have an adverse impact on ASB’s cost of funds;

 

   

the final outcome of tax positions taken by HEI, HECO, ASB and their subsidiaries;

 

   

the ability of consolidated HEI to generate capital gains and utilize capital loss carryforwards on future tax returns;

 

   

the risks of suffering losses and incurring liabilities that are uninsured; and

 

   

other risks or uncertainties described elsewhere in this report and in other periodic reports (e.g., “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K) previously and subsequently filed by HEI and/or HECO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of the report, presentation or filing in which they are made. Except to the extent required by the federal securities laws, HEI, HECO, ASB and their subsidiaries undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited)

 

    

Three months ended

June 30

   

Six months ended

June 30

 
     2007     2006     2007     2006  
(in thousands, except per share amounts and ratio of earnings to fixed charges)                         

Revenues

        

Electric utility

   $ 492,712     $ 503,967     $ 940,390     $ 979,023  

Bank

     107,526       102,556       211,986       202,560  

Other

     525       (1,554 )     2,410       (1,652 )
                                
     600,763       604,969       1,154,786       1,179,931  
                                

Expenses

        

Electric utility

     463,923       464,121       898,609       893,597  

Bank

     87,832       76,397       173,864       149,386  

Other

     3,699       3,722       8,463       7,068  
                                
     555,454       544,240       1,080,936       1,050,051  
                                

Operating income (loss)

        

Electric utility

     28,789       39,846       41,781       85,426  

Bank

     19,694       26,159       38,122       53,174  

Other

     (3,174 )     (5,276 )     (6,053 )     (8,720 )
                                
     45,309       60,729       73,850       129,880  
                                

Interest expense—other than on deposit liabilities

and other bank borrowings

     (19,282 )     (19,134 )     (39,793 )     (38,251 )

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     586       719       1,184       1,421  

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     (473 )     (473 )     (946 )     (946 )

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     1,202       1,588       2,434       3,136  
                                

Income from before income taxes

     27,342       43,429       36,729       95,240  

Income taxes

     9,793       16,205       12,416       35,679  
                                

Net income

   $ 17,549     $ 27,224     $ 24,313     $ 59,561  
                                

Basic earnings per common share

   $ 0.21     $ 0.34     $ 0.30     $ 0.73  
                                

Diluted earnings per common share

   $ 0.21     $ 0.33     $ 0.30     $ 0.73  
                                

Dividends per common share

   $ 0.31     $ 0.31     $ 0.62     $ 0.62  
                                

Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding

     81,907       81,100       81,679       81,041  

Dilutive effect of stock options and dividend equivalents

     217       332       227       319  
                                

Adjusted weighted-average shares

     82,124       81,432       81,906       81,360  
                                

Ratio of earnings to fixed charges (SEC method)

        

Excluding interest on ASB deposits

         1.44       2.21  
                                

Including interest on ASB deposits

         1.29       1.85  
                                

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HEI.

 

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Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited)

 

(dollars in thousands)

  

June 30,

2007

   

December 31,

2006

 

Assets

    

Cash and equivalents

   $ 152,163     $ 177,630  

Federal funds sold

     75,144       79,671  

Accounts receivable and unbilled revenues, net

     250,990       248,639  

Available-for-sale investment and mortgage-related securities

     2,301,360       2,367,427  

Investment in stock of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, at cost

     97,764       97,764  

Loans receivable, net

     3,887,739       3,780,461  

Property, plant and equipment, net of accumulated

depreciation of $1,705,833 and $1,651,088

     2,656,139       2,647,490  

Regulatory assets

     132,605       112,349  

Other

     316,522       292,638  

Goodwill and other intangibles, net

     87,130       87,140  
                
   $ 9,957,556     $ 9,891,209  
                

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

    

Liabilities

    

Accounts payable

   $ 171,941     $ 165,505  

Deposit liabilities

     4,432,341       4,575,548  

Short-term borrowings—other than bank

     125,465       176,272  

Other bank borrowings

     1,718,027       1,568,585  

Long-term debt, net—other than bank

     1,230,824       1,133,185  

Deferred income taxes

     83,430       106,780  

Regulatory liabilities

     251,198       240,619  

Contributions in aid of construction

     281,944       276,728  

Other

     519,695       518,454  
                
     8,814,865       8,761,676  
                

Minority interests

    

Preferred stock of subsidiaries - not subject to mandatory redemption

     34,293       34,293  
                

Stockholders’ equity

    

Preferred stock, no par value, authorized 10,000,000 shares; issued: none

     —         —    

Common stock, no par value, authorized 200,000,000 shares; issued

and outstanding: 82,391,429 shares and 81,461,409 shares

     1,048,562       1,028,101  

Retained earnings

     216,063       242,667  

Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax benefits

     (156,227 )     (175,528 )
                
     1,108,398       1,095,240  
                
   $ 9,957,556     $ 9,891,209  
                

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HEI.

 

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Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited)

 

     Common stock    Retained
earnings
   

Accumulated

other

comprehensive
loss

    Total  

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

   Shares    Amount       

Balance, December 31, 2006

   81,461    $ 1,028,101    $ 242,667     $ (175,528 )   $ 1,095,240  

Comprehensive income:

            

Net income

   —        —        24,313       —         24,313  

Net unrealized losses on securities arising during

the period, net of tax benefits of $1,989

   —        —        —         (3,012 )     (3,012 )

Defined benefit retirement plans—amortization

of net loss, prior service cost and transition

obligation included in net periodic benefit cost,

net of taxes of $2,622

   —        —        —         4,108       4,108  
                                    

Comprehensive income

   —        —        24,313       1,096       25,409  
                                    

Adjustment to initially apply a PUC D&O

related to defined benefit retirement plans,

net of taxes of $11,595

   —        —        —         18,205       18,205  

Adjustment to initially apply FIN 48

   —        —        (228 )     —         (228 )

Issuance of common stock, net

   930      20,461      —         —         20,461  

Common stock dividends ($0.62 per share)

   —        —        (50,689 )     —         (50,689 )
                                    

Balance, June 30, 2007

   82,391    $ 1,048,562    $ 216,063     $ (156,227 )   $ 1,108,398  
                                    

Balance, December 31, 2005

   80,983    $ 1,018,966    $ 235,394     $ (37,730 )   $ 1,216,630  

Comprehensive income:

            

Net income

   —        —        59,561       —         59,561  

Net unrealized losses on securities arising during

the period, net of tax benefits of $16,697

   —        —        —         (25,290 )     (25,290 )

Minimum pension liability adjustment,

net of tax benefits of $30

   —        —        —         (48 )     (48 )
                                    

Comprehensive income (loss)

   —        —        59,561       (25,338 )     34,223  
                                    

Issuance of common stock, net

   292      4,598      —         —         4,598  

Common stock dividends ($0.62 per share)

   —        —        (50,310 )     —         (50,310 )
                                    

Balance, June 30, 2006

   81,275    $ 1,023,564    $ 244,645     $ (63,068 )   $ 1,205,141  
                                    

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HEI.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited)

 

Six months ended June 30

   2007     2006  
(in thousands)             

Cash flows from operating activities

    

Net income

   $ 24,313     $ 59,561  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

    

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment

     74,057       70,574  

Other amortization

     4,576       4,211  

Writedown of utility plant

     11,701       —    

Provision for loan losses

     1,200       —    

Deferred income taxes

     (12,120 )     (7,498 )

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     (2,434 )     (3,136 )

Excess tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

     (259 )     (567 )

Loans receivable originated and purchased, held for sale

     (19,174 )     (11,257 )

Proceeds from sale of loans receivable, held for sale

     27,439       23,750  

Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects from the disposal of businesses

    

Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable and unbilled revenues, net

     (2,351 )     1,656  

Increase in fuel oil stock

     (24,148 )     (28,024 )

Decrease in federal tax deposit

     —         30,000  

Increase in accounts payable

     6,436       4,905  

Decrease in taxes accrued

     (7,136 )     (489 )

Changes in other assets and liabilities

     (2,685 )     4,003  
                

Net cash provided by operating activities

     79,415       147,689  
                

Cash flows from investing activities

    

Available-for-sale investment and mortgage-related securities purchased

     (199,315 )     (175,000 )

Principal repayments on available-for-sale investment and mortgage-related securities

     258,625       254,109  

Net increase in loans held for investment

     (114,094 )     (159,096 )

Net proceeds from sale of investments

     8,775       —    

Capital expenditures

     (79,886 )     (97,691 )

Contributions in aid of construction

     7,576       10,622  

Other

     458       1,436  
                

Net cash used in investing activities

     (117,861 )     (165,620 )
                

Cash flows from financing activities

    

Net decrease in deposit liabilities

     (143,207 )     (10,564 )

Net increase (decrease) in short-term borrowings with original maturities of three months or less

     (50,807 )     109,845  

Proceeds from short-term borrowings with original maturities of greater than three months

     —         44,890  

Net increase in retail repurchase agreements

     35,199       21,650  

Proceeds from other bank borrowings

     550,897       635,840  

Repayments of other bank borrowings

     (436,385 )     (608,595 )

Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

     221,327       —    

Repayment of long-term debt

     (126,000 )     (110,000 )

Excess tax benefits from share-based payment arrangements

     259       567  

Net proceeds from issuance of common stock

     8,341       2,481  

Common stock dividends

     (40,480 )     (50,282 )

Decrease in cash overdraft

     (9,098 )     (6,786 )

Other

     (1,594 )     (842 )
                

Net cash provided by financing activities

     8,452       28,204  
                

Cash flows from discontinued operations-net cash provided by operating activities

     —         6,846  
                

Net increase (decrease) in cash and equivalents and federal funds sold

     (29,994 )     17,119  

Cash and equivalents and federal funds sold, beginning of period

     257,301       208,947  
                

Cash and equivalents and federal funds sold, end of period

   $ 227,307     $ 226,066  
                

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HEI.

 

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Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. and Subsidiaries

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

(1) Basis of presentation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for interim financial information, the instructions to SEC Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S–X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In preparing the financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the balance sheet and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses for the period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in HEI’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and the unaudited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto in HEI’s Quarterly Report on SEC Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007.

In the opinion of HEI’s management, the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all material adjustments required by GAAP to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 and the results of its operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 and its cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature, unless otherwise disclosed in this Form 10–Q or other referenced material. Results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. When required, certain reclassifications are made to the prior period’s consolidated financial statements to conform to the current presentation.

 

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(2) Segment financial information

 

(in thousands)

   Electric Utility    Bank    Other     Total

Three months ended June 30, 2007

          

Revenues from external customers

   $ 492,651    $ 107,526    $ 586     $ 600,763

Intersegment revenues (eliminations)

     61      —        (61 )     —  
                            

Revenues

     492,712      107,526      525       600,763
                            

Profit (loss)*

     17,168      19,746      (9,572 )     27,342

Income taxes (benefit)

     6,518      7,164      (3,889 )     9,793
                            

Net income (loss)

     10,650      12,582      (5,683 )     17,549
                            

Six months ended June 30, 2007

          

Revenues from external customers

     940,259      211,986      2,541       1,154,786

Intersegment revenues (eliminations)

     131      —        (131 )     —  
                            

Revenues

     940,390      211,986      2,410       1,154,786
                            

Profit (loss)*

     17,308      38,145      (18,724 )     36,729

Income taxes (benefit)

     6,205      13,967      (7,756 )     12,416
                            

Net income (loss)

     11,103      24,178      (10,968 )     24,313
                            

Assets (at June 30, 2007)

   $ 3,128,278    $ 6,817,246    $ 12,032     $ 9,957,556
                            

Three months ended June 30, 2006

          

Revenues from external customers

   $ 503,897    $ 102,556    $ (1,484 )   $ 604,969

Intersegment revenues (eliminations)

     70      —        (70 )     —  
                            

Revenues

     503,967      102,556      (1,554 )     604,969
                            

Profit (loss)*

     28,109      26,159      (10,839 )     43,429

Income taxes (benefit)

     10,823      9,941      (4,559 )     16,205
                            

Net income (loss)

     17,286      16,218      (6,280 )     27,224
                            

Six months ended June 30, 2006

          

Revenues from external customers

     978,883      202,560      (1,512 )     1,179,931

Intersegment revenues (eliminations)

     140      —        (140 )     —  
                            

Revenues

     979,023      202,560      (1,652 )     1,179,931
                            

Profit (loss)*

     62,206      53,174      (20,140 )     95,240

Income taxes (benefit)

     23,932      20,129      (8,382 )     35,679
                            

Net income (loss)

     38,274      33,045      (11,758 )     59,561
                            

Assets (at June 30, 2006, including net assets of discontinued operations)

   $ 3,139,155    $ 6,866,794    $ 14,779     $ 10,020,728
                            

 

* Income (loss) before income taxes.

Intercompany electric sales of consolidated HECO to the bank and “other” segments are not eliminated because those segments would need to purchase electricity from another source if it were not provided by consolidated HECO, the profit on such sales is nominal and the elimination of electric sales revenues and expenses could distort segment operating income and net income.

Bank fees that ASB charges the electric utility and “other” segments are not eliminated because those segments would pay fees to another financial institution if they were to bank with another institution, the profit on such fees is nominal and the elimination of bank fee income and expenses could distort segment operating income and net income.

 

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(3) Electric utility subsidiary

For HECO’s consolidated financial information, including its commitments and contingencies, see pages 15 through 38.

 

(4) Bank subsidiary

Selected financial information

American Savings Bank, F.S.B. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Income Data (unaudited)

 

    

Three months ended

June 30

  

Six months ended

June 30

      2007    2006    2007    2006
(in thousands)                    

Interest and dividend income

           

Interest and fees on loans

   $ 60,093    $ 57,323    $ 120,374    $ 112,476

Interest and dividends on investment and mortgage-related securities

     30,428      30,870      58,593      60,947
                           
     90,521      88,193      178,967      173,423
                           

Interest expense

           

Interest on deposit liabilities

     20,832      17,001      41,570      32,394

Interest on other borrowings

     18,581      18,308      36,987      35,470
                           
     39,413      35,309      78,557      67,864
                           

Net interest income

     51,108      52,884      100,410      105,559

Provision for loan losses

     1,200      —        1,200      —  
                           

Net interest income after provision for loan losses

     49,908      52,884      99,210      105,559
                           

Noninterest income

           

Fees from other financial services

     6,885      6,742      13,386      13,182

Fee income on deposit liabilities

     6,457      4,376      12,512      8,565

Fee income on other financial products

     1,856      2,132      3,868      4,569

Other income

     1,807      1,113      3,253      2,821
                           
     17,005      14,363      33,019      29,137
                           

Noninterest expense

           

Compensation and employee benefits

     18,164      17,476      36,560      35,313

Occupancy

     5,341      4,490      10,289      8,953

Equipment

     3,785      3,636      7,263      7,132

Services

     7,895      4,124      16,253      7,841

Data processing

     2,646      2,547      5,203      5,007

Other expense

     9,336      8,815      18,516      17,276
                           
     47,167      41,088      94,084      81,522
                           

Income before income taxes

     19,746      26,159      38,145      53,174

Income taxes

     7,164      9,941      13,967      20,129
                           

Net income

   $ 12,582    $ 16,218    $ 24,178    $ 33,045
                           

 

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American Savings Bank, F.S.B. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data (unaudited)

 

(in thousands)

  

June 30,

2007

   

December 31,

2006

 

Assets

    

Cash and equivalents

   $ 146,012     $ 172,370  

Federal funds sold

     75,144       79,671  

Available-for-sale investment and mortgage-related securities

     2,301,360       2,367,427  

Investment in stock of Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, at cost

     97,764       97,764  

Loans receivable, net

     3,887,739       3,780,461  

Other

     223,072       223,666  

Goodwill and other intangibles, net

     86,155       87,140  
                
   $ 6,817,246     $ 6,808,499  
                

Liabilities and stockholder’s equity

    

Deposit liabilities–noninterest-bearing

   $ 649,455     $ 648,915  

Deposit liabilities–interest-bearing

     3,782,886       3,926,633  

Other borrowings

     1,718,027       1,568,585  

Other

     105,226       104,470  
                
     6,255,594       6,248,603  
                

Common stock

     324,634       323,154  

Retained earnings

     283,094       280,046  

Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax benefits

     (46,076 )     (43,304 )
                
     561,652       559,896  
                
   $ 6,817,246     $ 6,808,499  
                

Other borrowings consisted of securities sold under agreements to repurchase and advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Seattle of $971 million and $747 million, respectively, as of June 30, 2007 and $730 million and $839 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2006.

As of June 30, 2007, ASB had commitments to borrowers for undisbursed loan funds, loan commitments and unused lines and letters of credit of $1.1 billion.

 

(5) Retirement benefits

For the first six months of 2007, HECO contributed $4.2 million, ASB contributed $0.9 million and HEI contributed less than $0.1 million to their respective retirement benefit plans, compared to $5.1 million, $1.5 million and $0.1 million, respectively, in the first six months of 2006. The Company’s current estimate of contributions to its retirement benefit plans in 2007 is $13.1 million (including $12.1 million by HECO, $0.9 million by ASB and $0.1 million by HEI), compared to contributions of $12.9 million in 2006. In addition, the Company expects to pay directly $1.7 million of benefits in 2007, compared to $1.2 million paid in 2006.

The components of net periodic benefit cost were as follows:

 

     Three months ended June 30     Six months ended June 30  
     Pension benefits     Other benefits     Pension benefits     Other benefits  
      2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006  
(in thousands)                                                 

Service cost

   $ 7,751     $ 8,236     $ 1,209     $ 1,278     $ 15,504     $ 16,327     $ 2,440     $ 2,549  

Interest cost

     14,444       13,645       2,774       2,578       28,864       27,121       5,634       5,310  

Expected return on plan assets

     (17,098 )     (18,089 )     (2,404 )     (2,493 )     (34,200 )     (35,842 )     (4,702 )     (4,959 )

Amortization of unrecognized transition obligation

     1       1       784       785       2       2       1,569       1,569  

Amortization of prior service

cost (gain)

     (49 )     14       4       4       (98 )     (142 )     7       7  

Recognized actuarial loss (gain)

     2,835       2,917       —         (18 )     5,690       6,028       —         206  
                                                                

Net periodic benefit cost

   $ 7,884     $ 6,724     $ 2,367     $ 2,134     $ 15,762     $ 13,494     $ 4,948     $ 4,682  
                                                                

The Company recorded retirement benefits expense of $17 million and $14 million in the first six months of 2007 and 2006, respectively. The electric utilities charged a portion of the net periodic benefit costs to plant. Also, in an

 

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interim order issued in April 2007, the amount of HELCO’s net periodic benefit costs to be recovered in rates was established. Thus, any costs determined under SFAS No. 87, as amended, that are over/under this amount are charged/credited to a regulatory asset. Further, under the interim order, a regulatory asset (representing HELCO’s prepaid pension asset as of December 31, 2006 prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 158) was allowed to be recovered (and is being amortized) over a period of five years. Retirement benefits expense for HELCO for the second quarter of 2007 was $1.3 million, but would have been $0.9 million if the pension and postretirement benefits other than pensions (OPEB) tracking mechanisms had not been adopted in the April 2007 interim order issued in HELCO’s 2006 test year rate case.

Also, see Note 4, “Retirement benefits,” of HECO’s Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

(6) Share-based compensation

Under the 1987 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended (SOIP), HEI may issue an aggregate of 9.3 million shares of common stock (4,798,822 shares available for issuance under outstanding and future grants and awards as of June 30, 2007) to officers and key employees as incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options (NQSOs), restricted stock, stock appreciation rights (SARs), stock payments or dividend equivalents. HEI has issued new shares for NQSOs, restricted stock (nonvested stock), SARs and dividend equivalents under the SOIP. All information presented has been adjusted for the 2-for-1 stock split in June 2004.

For the NQSOs and SARs, the exercise price of each NQSO or SAR generally equaled the fair market value of HEI’s stock on or near the date of grant. NQSOs, SARs and related dividend equivalents issued in the form of stock awarded prior to and through 2004 generally become exercisable in installments of 25% each year for four years, and expire if not exercised ten years from the date of the grant. The 2005 SARs awards, which have a ten year exercise life, generally become exercisable at the end of four years (i.e., cliff vesting) with the related dividend equivalents issued in the form of stock on an annual basis. Accelerated vesting is provided in the event of a change-in-control or upon retirement. NQSOs and SARs compensation expense has been recognized in accordance with the fair value-based measurement method of accounting. The estimated fair value of each NQSO and SAR grant was calculated on the date of grant using a Binomial Option Pricing Model.

Restricted stock grants generally become unrestricted three to five years after the date of grant and restricted stock compensation expense has been recognized in accordance with the fair value-based measurement method of accounting. Dividends on restricted stock are paid quarterly in cash.

The Company’s share-based compensation expense and related income tax benefit (including a valuation allowance due to limits on the deductibility of executive compensation) are as follows:

 

     Three months ended
June 30,
  

Six months ended

June 30,

($ in millions)

   2007    2006    2007    2006

Share-based compensation expense 1

   0.4    0.3    0.7    0.9

Income tax benefit

   0.1    0.3    0.2    0.5

 

1

The Company has not capitalized any share-based compensation cost. For all share-based compensation, the estimated forfeiture rate is 1.3%.

 

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Nonqualified stock options

Information about HEI’s NQSOs is summarized as follows:

 

June 30, 2007    Outstanding & Exercisable

Year of

grant

  

Range of

exercise prices

   Number of
options
  

Weighted-

average

remaining

contractual life

  

Weighted-

average

exercise

price

1998    $ 20.50    6,000    0.8    $ 20.50
1999      17.61 -17.63    48,300    2.0      17.62
2000      14.74    52,000    2.8      14.74
2001      17.96    83,000    3.8      17.96
2002      21.68    134,000    4.6      21.68
2003      20.49    280,500    5.7      20.49
                       
   $ 14.74 -21.68    603,800    4.6    $ 19.68
                       

As of December 31, 2006, NQSOs outstanding totaled 660,000, with a weighted-average exercise price of $19.68. As of June 30, 2007, all NQSO shares outstanding were exercisable and had an aggregate intrinsic value (including dividend equivalents) of $4.7 million.

NQSO activity and statistics are summarized as follows:

 

     Three months ended
June 30,
  

Six months ended

June 30,

      2007    2006    2007    2006
($ in thousands, except prices)                    

Shares granted

     —        —        —        —  

Shares forfeited

     —        —        —        —  

Shares expired

     —        —        —        —  

Shares vested

     77,500      197,500      79,000      197,500

Aggregate fair value of vested shares

   $ 343    $ 911    $ 350    $ 911

Shares exercised

     36,700      110,500      56,200      116,500

Weighted-average exercise price

   $ 18.77    $ 21.52    $ 19.70    $ 21.30

Cash received from exercise

   $ 689    $ 2,378    $ 1,107    $ 2,482

Intrinsic value of shares exercised 1

   $ 433    $ 1,064    $ 575    $ 1,174

Tax benefit realized for the deduction of exercises

   $ 169    $ 414    $ 224    $ 457

Dividend equivalent shares distributed under Section 409A

     —        2,904      21,892      43,213

Weighted-average Section 409A distribution price

     —      $ 26.68    $ 26.15    $ 26.27

Intrinsic value of shares distributed under Section 409A

     —      $ 77    $ 572    $ 1,135

Tax benefit realized for Section 409A distributions

     —      $ 30    $ 223    $ 442

 

1

Intrinsic value is the amount by which the fair market value of the underlying stock and the related dividend equivalents exceeds the exercise price of the option.

As of June 30, 2007, all NQSOs were vested.

Stock appreciation rights

Information about HEI’s SARs is summarized as follows:

 

June 30, 2007

   Outstanding    Exercisable

Year of

grant

  

Range of

exercise prices

  

Number

of shares
underlying
SARs

  

Weighted-

average

remaining

contractual life

  

Weighted-

average

exercise

price

  

Number

of shares
underlying

SARs

  

Weighted-

average

remaining

contractual life

  

Weighted-

average

exercise

price

2004

   $ 26.02    325,000    4.6    $ 26.02    280,000    4.3    $ 26.02

2005

     26.18    550,000    6.0      26.18    166,000    1.9      26.18
                                        
   $
 
26.02 –
26.18
   875,000    5.5    $ 26.12    446,000    3.4    $ 26.08
                                        

As of December 31, 2006, the shares underlying SARs outstanding totaled 879,000, with a weighted-average exercise price of $26.12. As of June 30, 2007, the SARs outstanding and the SARs exercisable (including dividend equivalents) had no intrinsic value.

 

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SARs activity and statistics are summarized as follows:

 

     Three months ended
June 30,
  

Six months ended

June 30,

      2007    2006    2007    2006
($ in thousands, except prices)                    

Shares granted

     —        —        —        —  

Shares forfeited

     —        —        —        —  

Shares expired

     —        —        —        —  

Shares vested

     45,000      313,750      51,000      313,750

Aggregate fair value of vested shares

   $ 234    $ 1,749    $ 269    $ 1,749

Shares exercised

     —        —        4,000      —  

Weighted-average exercise price

     —        —      $ 26.18      —  

Cash received from exercise

     —        —        —        —  

Intrinsic value of shares exercised 1

     —        —      $ 3      —  

Tax benefit realized for the deduction of exercises

     —        —      $ 1      —  

Dividend equivalent shares distributed under Section 409A

     —        7,333      23,760      28,505

Weighted-average Section 409A distribution price

     —      $ 26.71    $ 26.15    $ 26.36

Intrinsic value of shares distributed under Section 409A

     —      $ 196    $ 621    $ 751

Tax benefit realized for Section 409A distributions

     —      $ 76    $ 242    $ 292

 

1

Intrinsic value is the amount by which the fair market value of the underlying stock and the related dividend equivalents exceeds the exercise price of the right.

As of June 30, 2007, there was $0.8 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to SARs and that cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.7 years.

Section 409A modification

As a result of the changes enacted in Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (Section 409A), for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, a total of 45,652 and 71,719 dividend equivalent shares for NQSO and SAR grants were distributed to SOIP participants, respectively. Section 409A, which amended the rules on deferred compensation, required the Company to change the way certain affected dividend equivalents are paid in order to avoid significant adverse tax consequences to the SOIP participants. Generally, dividend equivalents subject to Section 409A will be paid within 2 1/2 months after the end of the calendar year. Upon retirement, an SOIP participant may elect to take distributions of dividend equivalents subject to Section 409A at the time of retirement or at the end of the calendar year.

Restricted stock

As of December 31, 2006, restricted stock shares outstanding totaled 91,800, with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $25.68. As of June 30, 2007, restricted stock shares outstanding totaled 142,200, with a weighted-average grant date fair value of $26.16. The grant date fair value of a grant of a restricted stock share is the closing price of HEI common stock on the date of grant.

During the first six months of 2007, 16,000 restricted stock shares vested, no restricted stock shares were forfeited, and 66,400 shares of restricted stock with a grant date fair market value of $1.7 million were granted. During the second quarter of 2007, 16,000 restricted stock shares vested and 57,700 shares of restricted stock with a grant date fair market value of $1.5 million were granted. For the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2006, no restricted stock shares vested or were forfeited and 60,800 shares with a grant date fair market value of $1.6 million were granted. The tax benefit realized for the tax deductions from restricted stock was $0.2 million for the first six months of 2007 and not significant for the first six months of 2006.

As of June 30, 2007, there was $2.9 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to nonvested restricted stock. The cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.3 years.

 

(7) Commitments and contingencies

See Note 4, “Bank subsidiary,” above and Note 5, “Commitments and contingencies,” of HECO’s “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.”

 

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(8) Cash flows

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information

For the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, the Company paid interest to non-affiliates amounting to $110 million and $95 million, respectively.

For the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, the Company paid income taxes amounting to $3 million and $4 million, respectively.

Supplemental disclosures of noncash activities

Noncash increases in common stock for director and officer compensatory plans of the Company were $1.7 million and $1.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively.

Under the HEI Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan (DRIP), common stock dividends reinvested by shareholders in HEI common stock in noncash transactions amounted to $10.2 million and nil for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. From March 23, 2004 to March 5, 2007, HEI satisfied the requirements of the HEI DRIP and the Hawaiian Electric Industries Retirement Savings Plan (HEIRSP) by acquiring for cash its common shares through open market purchases rather than the issuance of additional shares. On March 6, 2007, it began satisfying those requirements by the issuance of additional shares.

 

(9) Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

Fair value measurements

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements,” which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value under GAAP and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements that are already required or permitted under existing accounting pronouncements with some exceptions. SFAS No. 157 retains the exchange price notion in defining fair value and clarifies that the exchange price is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability. It emphasizes that fair value is a market-based, not an entity-specific, measurement based upon the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering assumptions in fair value measurements, SFAS No. 157 establishes a hierarchy that gives the highest priority to quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). SFAS No. 157 expands disclosures about the use of fair value, including disclosure of the level within the hierarchy in which the fair value measurements fall and the effect of the measurements on earnings (or changes in net assets) for the period. SFAS No. 157 must be adopted by the first quarter of the fiscal year beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company plans to adopt SFAS No. 157 on January 1, 2008. Management has not yet determined what impact, if any, the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will have on the Company’s financial statements.

The fair value option for financial assets and financial liabilities

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, Including an amendment of FASB Statement No. 115.” SFAS No. 159 permits entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value, which should improve financial reporting by providing entities with the opportunity to mitigate volatility in reported earnings caused by measuring related assets and liabilities differently without having to apply complex hedge accounting provisions. SFAS No. 159 must be adopted by January 1, 2008. The Company plans to adopt SFAS No. 159 on January 1, 2008. Management has not yet determined what impact, if any, the adoption of SFAS No. 159 will have on the Company’s financial statements.

Income Tax Benefits of Dividends on Share-Based Payment Awards

In June 2007, the FASB ratified the EITF consensus reached on EITF Issue No. 06-11, "Accounting for Income Tax Benefits of Dividends on Share-Based Payment Awards." The consensus applies to share-based payment arrangements in which the employee receives dividends on the award during the vesting period, the dividend payment results in a tax deduction, and the employer thereby realizes a tax benefit during the vesting period (e.g., restricted stock awards issued by the Company). Under SFAS No. 123R, dividends paid during the vesting period on share-based payments that are expected to vest are charged to retained earnings because the compensation cost

 

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already reflects the expected value of those dividends, which are included in the grant date fair value of the award, but dividends on awards that do not vest are recognized as additional compensation cost. The consensus requires the tax benefit received on dividends associated with share-based awards that are charged to retained earnings to be recorded in additional paid-in capital and included in the pool of excess tax benefits available to absorb potential future tax deficiencies on share-based payment awards. A tax benefit recognized from a dividend on an award that is subsequently forfeited or is no longer expected to vest (and that is therefore reclassified as additional compensation expense) would be reclassified to the income statement if sufficient excess tax benefits are available in the pool of excess tax benefits in additional paid-in capital on the date of the reclassification. The consensus is effective for the tax benefits of dividends declared in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2007. The Company will adopt this consensus on January 1, 2008 and the adoption is not expected to have an impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

(10) Income taxes

In June 2006, the FASB issued FIN 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109,” which prescribes a “more-likely-than-not” recognition threshold and measurement attribute (the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate resolution with tax authorities) for the financial statement recognition and measurement of an income tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The Company adopted FIN 48 in the first quarter of 2007. The impact to the Company was a reclassification of certain deferred tax liabilities to a liability for tax uncertainties and a charge of $0.2 million to retained earnings as of January 1, 2007 for the cumulative effect of adoption of FIN 48.

In general, prior to January 1, 2007, the Company (except for ASB) recorded known interest and penalties on income taxes in “Interest expense – other than bank” (in “Interest and other charges” in HECO’s consolidated statements of income) and ASB recorded known interest and penalties on income taxes in “Expenses—Bank” (in “Other expense” in ASB’s consolidated statements of income). Since the adoption of FIN 48, the electric utilities and ASB record all (potential and known) interest and penalties on income taxes in “Interest and other charges” and “Other expense,” respectively, but the Company records such amounts in “Interest expense – other than on deposit liabilities and other bank borrowings.” For the first six months of 2006, interest accrued on income taxes was insignificant. For the first six months of 2007, $0.4 million of interest on income taxes was reflected in “Interest expense – other than on deposit liabilities and bank borrowings.”

As of January 1, 2007, the total amount of accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions and recognized on the balance sheet was $2.0 million.

As of January 1, 2007, the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits was $11 million, and of this amount, $0.6 million, if recognized, would affect the Company’s effective tax rate. Management concluded that it is reasonably possible that the unrecognized tax benefits will significantly decrease within the next 12 months due to the resolution of issues under examination by the Internal Revenue Service. Management cannot estimate the range of the reasonably possible change.

Tax years 2003 to 2006 currently remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Taxation of the State of Hawaii. HEIII, which owns leveraged lease investments in other states, is also subject to examination by those state tax authorities for tax years 2003 to 2006.

The Company’s effective tax rate for the first six months of 2007 was 34%, compared to an effective tax rate for the first six months of 2006 of 37%. The lower effective tax rate was primarily due to the impact of state tax credits (including the acceleration of the state tax credits associated with the write-off of a portion of CT-4 and CT-5 costs) recognized against a smaller income tax expense base.

 

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(11) Sale of shares in Hoku Scientific, Inc.

HEI Properties, Inc. (HEIPI) held shares of Hoku Scientific, Inc. (Hoku), a materials science company focused on clean energy technologies. Shares of Hoku began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market on August 5, 2005 and since then HEIPI had classified its Hoku shares as trading securities, carried at fair value with changes in fair value recorded in earnings. HEIPI began selling Hoku stock in February 2006 when HEIPI’s lock-up agreement expired. In the first six months of 2006, HEIPI recognized a $1.6 million loss (unrealized and realized, net of taxes) on its Hoku shares. As of December 31, 2006, HEIPI had carried its remaining investment in Hoku shares at $1.2 million. In January 2007, HEIPI sold its remaining Hoku shares for a net after-tax gain of $0.9 million.

 

(12) Credit agreement

Effective April 3, 2006, HEI entered into a revolving unsecured credit agreement establishing a line of credit facility of $100 million, with a letter of credit sub-facility, expiring on March 31, 2011, with a syndicate of eight financial institutions. Any draws on the facility bear interest, at the option of HEI, at either the “Adjusted LIBO Rate” plus 50 basis points or the greater of (a) the “Prime Rate” and (b) the sum of the “Federal Funds Rate” plus 50 basis points, as defined in the agreement. The annual fee is 10 basis points on the undrawn commitment amount. The agreement contains provisions for revised pricing in the event of a ratings change. For example, a ratings downgrade of HEI’s Senior Debt Rating (e.g., from BBB/Baa2 to BBB-/Baa3 by S&P and Moody’s, respectively) would result in a commitment fee increase of 2.5 basis points and an interest rate increase of 10 basis points on any drawn amounts. On the other hand, a ratings upgrade (e.g., from BBB/Baa2 to BBB+/Baa1) would result in a commitment fee decrease of 2 basis points and an interest rate decrease of 10 basis points on any drawn amounts. The agreement does not contain clauses that would affect access to the lines by reason of a ratings downgrade, nor does it have a broad “material adverse change” clause. However, the agreement does contain customary conditions which must be met in order to draw on it, such as the accuracy of certain of its representations at the time of a draw and compliance with its covenants (such as covenants preventing its subsidiaries from entering into agreements that restrict the ability of the subsidiaries to pay dividends to, or to repay borrowings from, HEI). In addition to customary defaults, HEI’s failure to maintain its financial ratio, as defined in the agreement, or meet other requirements will result in an event of default. For example, under the agreement, it is an event of default if HEI fails to maintain a nonconsolidated “Capitalization Ratio” (funded debt) of 50% or less (ratio of 27% as of June 30, 2007, as calculated under the agreement) and “Consolidated Net Worth” of $850 million (Net Worth of $1.3 billion as of June 30, 2007, as calculated under the agreement), if there is a “Change in Control” of HEI, if any event or condition occurs that results in any “Material Indebtedness” of HEI being subject to acceleration prior to its scheduled maturity, if any “Material Subsidiary Indebtedness” actually becomes due prior to its scheduled maturity, or if ASB fails to remain well capitalized and to maintain specified minimum capital ratios. HEI’s syndicated credit facility is maintained to support the issuance of commercial paper, but may also be drawn to make investments in and advances to its subsidiaries, and for the Company’s working capital and general corporate purposes. As of August 1, 2007, the $100 million credit facility remained undrawn.

See Note 10 of HECO’s “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for a discussion of HECO’s credit facility.

 

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Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited)

 

    

Three months ended

June 30

   

Six months ended

June 30

 
      2007     2006     2007     2006  
(in thousands, except for ratio of earnings to fixed charges)                         

Operating revenues

   $ 491,249     $ 503,350     $ 938,046     $ 977,321  
                                

Operating expenses

        

Fuel oil

     167,121       192,314       327,050       367,652  

Purchased power

     133,727       122,438       245,243       240,158  

Other operation

     53,643       47,934       100,836       89,953  

Maintenance

     29,869       22,382       57,205       39,434  

Depreciation

     34,272       32,542       68,539       65,075  

Taxes, other than income taxes

     44,903       46,218       87,450       90,741  

Income taxes

     6,492       11,020       10,998       24,244  
                                
     470,027       474,848       897,321       917,257  
                                

Operating income

     21,222       28,502       40,725       60,064  
                                

Other income

        

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     1,202       1,588       2,434       3,136  

Other, net

     1,049       521       (5,149 )     1,430  
                                
     2,251       2,109       (2,715 )     4,566  
                                

Income before interest and other charges

     23,473       30,611       38,010       64,630  
                                

Interest and other charges

        

Interest on long-term debt

     11,390       10,776       22,886       21,554  

Amortization of net bond premium and expense

     646       543       1,192       1,086  

Other interest charges

     874       2,226       3,015       4,139  

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     (586 )     (719 )     (1,184 )     (1,421 )

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     229       229       458       458  
                                
     12,553       13,055       26,367       25,816  
                                

Income before preferred stock dividends of HECO

     10,920       17,556       11,643       38,814  

Preferred stock dividends of HECO

     270       270       540       540  
                                

Net income for common stock

   $ 10,650     $ 17,286     $ 11,103     $ 38,274  
                                

Ratio of earnings to fixed charges (SEC method)

         1.58       3.16  
                                

HEI owns all the common stock of HECO. Therefore, per share data with respect to shares of common stock of HECO are not meaningful.

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HECO.

 

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Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited)

 

(in thousands, except par value)

  

June 30,

2007

   

December 31,

2006

 

Assets

    

Utility plant, at cost

    

Land

   $ 35,223     $ 35,242  

Plant and equipment

     4,054,001       4,002,929  

Less accumulated depreciation

     (1,608,646 )     (1,558,913 )

Plant acquisition adjustment, net

     67       93  

Construction in progress

     106,605       95,619  
                

Net utility plant

     2,587,250       2,574,970  
                

Current assets

    

Cash and equivalents

     4,861       3,859  

Customer accounts receivable, net

     132,737       125,524  

Accrued unbilled revenues, net

     83,198       92,195  

Other accounts receivable, net

     5,693       4,423  

Fuel oil stock, at average cost

     88,460       64,312  

Materials and supplies, at average cost

     33,594       30,540  

Other

     8,805       9,695  
                

Total current assets

     357,348       330,548  
                

Other long-term assets

    

Regulatory assets

     132,605       112,349  

Unamortized debt expense

     16,037       13,722  

Other

     35,038       31,545  
                

Total other long-term assets

     183,680       157,616  
                
   $ 3,128,278     $ 3,063,134  
                

Capitalization and liabilities

    

Capitalization

    

Common stock, $6 2/3 par value, authorized 50,000 shares; outstanding 12,806 shares

   $ 85,387     $ 85,387  

Premium on capital stock

     299,214       299,214  

Retained earnings

     710,735       700,252  

Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of income tax benefits

     (104,776 )     (126,650 )
                

Common stock equity

     990,560       958,203  

Cumulative preferred stock – not subject to mandatory redemption

     34,293       34,293  

Long-term debt, net

     863,824       766,185  
                

Total capitalization

     1,888,677       1,758,681  
                

Current liabilities

    

Short-term borrowings–nonaffiliates

     52,626       113,107  

Accounts payable

     102,379       102,512  

Interest and preferred dividends payable

     13,949       10,645  

Taxes accrued

     137,436       152,182  

Other

     34,877       43,120  
                

Total current liabilities

     341,267       421,566  
                

Deferred credits and other liabilities

    

Deferred income taxes

     103,359       118,055  

Regulatory liabilities

     251,198       240,619  

Unamortized tax credits

     57,854       57,879  

Other

     203,979       189,606  
                

Total deferred credits and other liabilities

     616,390       606,159  
                

Contributions in aid of construction

     281,944       276,728  
                
   $ 3,128,278     $ 3,063,134  
                

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HECO.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholder’s Equity (unaudited)

 

     Common stock   

Premium

on

capital
stock

   Retained
earnings
   

Accumulated

other

comprehensive
loss

    Total  

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

   Shares    Amount          

Balance, December 31, 2006

   12,806    $ 85,387    $ 299,214    $ 700,252     $ (126,650 )   $ 958,203  

Comprehensive income:

               

Net income

   —        —        —        11,103       —         11,103  

Defined benefit retirement plans – amortization of net loss, prior service cost and transition obligation included periodic benefit cost, net of taxes of $2,337

   —        —        —        —         3,669       3,669  
                                           

Comprehensive income

   —        —        —        11,103       3,669       14,772  
                                           

Adjustment to initially apply a PUC D&O

related to defined benefit retirement plans,

net of taxes of $11,595

   —        —        —        —         18,205       18,205  

Adjustment to initially apply FIN 48

   —        —        —        (620 )     —         (620 )
                                           

Balance, June 30, 2007

   12,806    $ 85,387    $ 299,214    $ 710,735     $ (104,776 )   $ 990,560  
                                           

Balance, December 31, 2005

   12,806    $ 85,387    $ 299,214    $ 654,686     $ (28 )   $ 1,039,259  

Net income

   —        —        —        38,274       —         38,274  

Common stock dividends

   —        —        —        (29,381 )     —         (29,381 )
                                           

Balance, June 30, 2006

   12,806    $ 85,387    $ 299,214    $ 663,579     $ (28 )   $ 1,048,152  
                                           

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HECO.

 

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited)

 

Six months ended June 30

   2007     2006  
(in thousands)             

Cash flows from operating activities

    

Income before preferred stock dividends of HECO

   $ 11,643     $ 38,814  

Adjustments to reconcile income before preferred stock dividends of HECO to net cash provided by operating activities

    

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment

     68,539       65,075  

Other amortization

     3,836       3,801  

Writedown of utility plant

     11,701       —    

Deferred income taxes

     (12,484 )     (6,912 )

Tax credits, net

     1,116       2,459  

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     (2,434 )     (3,136 )

Changes in assets and liabilities

    

Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable

     (8,483 )     6,404  

Decrease in accrued unbilled revenues

     8,997       2,966  

Increase in fuel oil stock

     (24,148 )     (28,024 )

Increase in materials and supplies

     (3,054 )     (3,150 )

Increase in regulatory assets

     (1,628 )     (1,587 )

Decrease in accounts payable

     (133 )     (206 )

Increase (decrease) in taxes accrued

     (14,746 )     9,723  

Changes in other assets and liabilities

     7,262       6,979  
                

Net cash provided by operating activities

     45,984       93,206  
                

Cash flows from investing activities

    

Capital expenditures

     (77,769 )     (91,394 )

Contributions in aid of construction

     7,577       10,622  

Other

     —         193  
                

Net cash used in investing activities

     (70,192 )     (80,579 )
                

Cash flows from financing activities

    

Common stock dividends

     —         (29,381 )

Preferred stock dividends

     (540 )     (540 )

Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

     221,327       —    

Repayment of long-term debt

     (126,000 )     —    

Net increase (decrease) in short-term borrowings from

nonaffiliates and affiliate with original maturities of three months or less

     (60,481 )     27,311  

Decrease in cash overdraft

     (9,096 )     (6,786 )
                

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     25,210       (9,396 )
                

Net increase in cash and equivalents

     1,002       3,231  

Cash and equivalents, beginning of period

     3,859       143  
                

Cash and equivalents, end of period

   $ 4,861     $ 3,374  
                

See accompanying “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements” for HECO.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

(1) Basis of presentation

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP for interim financial information, the instructions to SEC Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In preparing the financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the balance sheet and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses for the period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto incorporated by reference in HECO’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 and the unaudited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto in HECO’s Quarterly Report on SEC Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2007.

In the opinion of HECO’s management, the accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements contain all material adjustments required by GAAP to present fairly the financial position of HECO and its subsidiaries as of June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 and the results of their operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 and their cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature, unless otherwise disclosed in this Form 10-Q or other referenced material. Results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. When required, certain reclassifications are made to the prior period’s consolidated financial statements to conform to the current presentation.

 

(2) Unconsolidated variable interest entities

HECO Capital Trust III

HECO Capital Trust III (Trust III) was created and exists for the exclusive purposes of (i) issuing in March 2004 2,000,000 6.50% Cumulative Quarterly Income Preferred Securities, Series 2004 (2004 Trust Preferred Securities) ($50 million aggregate liquidation preference) to the public and trust common securities ($1.5 million aggregate liquidation preference) to HECO, (ii) investing the proceeds of these trust securities in 2004 Debentures issued by HECO in the principal amount of $31.5 million and issued by each of Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc. (HELCO) and Maui Electric Company, Limited (MECO) in the respective principal amounts of $10 million, (iii) making distributions on the trust securities and (iv) engaging in only those other activities necessary or incidental thereto. The 2004 Trust Preferred Securities are mandatorily redeemable at the maturity of the underlying debt on March 18, 2034, which maturity may be extended to no later than March 18, 2053; and are redeemable at the issuer’s option without premium beginning on March 18, 2009. The 2004 Debentures, together with the obligations of HECO, HELCO and MECO under an expense agreement and HECO’s obligations under its trust guarantee and its guarantee of the obligations of HELCO and MECO under their respective debentures, are the sole assets of Trust III. Trust III has at all times been an unconsolidated subsidiary of HECO. Since HECO, as the common security holder, does not absorb the majority of the variability of Trust III, HECO is not the primary beneficiary and does not consolidate Trust III in accordance with FIN 46R, “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities.” Trust III’s balance sheets as of June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 each consisted of $51.5 million of 2004 Debentures; $50.0 million of 2004 Trust Preferred Securities; and $1.5 million of trust common securities. Trust III’s income statements for six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 each consisted of $1.7 million of interest income received from the 2004 Debentures; $1.6 million of distributions to holders of the Trust Preferred Securities; and $0.1 million of common dividends on the trust common securities to HECO. So long as the 2004 Trust Preferred Securities are outstanding, HECO is not entitled to receive any funds from Trust III other than pro rata distributions, subject to certain subordination provisions, on the trust common securities. In the event of a default by HECO in the performance of its obligations under the 2004 Debentures or under its Guarantees, or in the event HECO, HELCO or

 

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MECO elect to defer payment of interest on any of their respective 2004 Debentures, then HECO will be subject to a number of restrictions, including a prohibition on the payment of dividends on its common stock.

Purchase power agreements

As of June 30, 2007, HECO and its subsidiaries had six PPAs for a total of 540 megawatts (MW) of firm capacity, and other PPAs with smaller IPPs and Schedule Q providers that supplied as-available energy. Approximately 91% of the 540 MW of firm capacity is under PPAs, entered into before December 31, 2003, with AES Hawaii, Inc. (AES Hawaii), Kalaeloa Partners, L.P. (Kalaeloa), Hamakua Energy Partners, L.P. (HEP) and HPOWER. Purchases from all IPPs for the six months ended June 30, 2007 totaled $245 million, with purchases from AES Hawaii, Kalaeloa, HEP and HPOWER totaling $71 million, $82 million, $32 million and $18 million, respectively. The primary business activities of these IPPs are the generation and sale of power to HECO and its subsidiaries (and municipal waste disposal in the case of HPOWER). Current financial information about the size, including total assets and revenues, for many of these IPPs is not publicly available.

Under FIN 46R, an enterprise with an interest in a variable interest entity (VIE) or potential VIE created before December 31, 2003 (and not thereafter materially modified) is not required to apply FIN 46R to that entity if the enterprise is unable to obtain, after making an exhaustive effort, the necessary information.

HECO reviewed its significant PPAs and determined in 2004 that the IPPs had no contractual obligation to provide such information. In March 2004, HECO and its subsidiaries sent letters to all of their IPPs, except the Schedule Q providers, requesting the information that they need to determine the applicability of FIN 46R to the respective IPP, and subsequently contacted most of the IPPs to explain and repeat its request for information. (HECO and its subsidiaries excluded their Schedule Q providers from the scope of FIN 46R because their variable interest in the provider would not be significant to the utilities and they did not participate significantly in the design of the provider.) Some of the IPPs provided sufficient information for HECO to determine that the IPP was not a VIE, or was either a “business” or “governmental organization” (HPOWER) as defined under FIN 46R, and thus excluded from the scope of FIN 46R. Other IPPs, including the three largest, declined to provide the information necessary for HECO to determine the applicability of FIN 46R, and HECO was unable to apply FIN 46R to these IPPs.

As required under FIN 46R, HECO has continued after 2004 its efforts to obtain from the IPPs the information necessary to make the determinations required under FIN 46R. In January 2005, 2006 and 2007, HECO and its subsidiaries again sent letters to the IPPs that were not excluded from the scope of FIN 46R, requesting the information required to determine the applicability of FIN 46R to the respective IPP. All of these IPPs again declined to provide the necessary information, except that Kalaeloa (see below) and Kaheawa Wind Power, LLC (KWP) have now provided their information. Management has concluded that MECO does not have to consolidate KWP (which began selling power to MECO in June 2006 from its 30 MW windfarm) as MECO does not have a variable interest in KWP because the PPA does not require MECO to absorb variability of KWP.

If the requested information is ultimately received from the other IPPs, a possible outcome of future analysis is the consolidation of one or more of such IPPs in HECO’s consolidated financial statements. The consolidation of any significant IPP could have a material effect on HECO’s consolidated financial statements, including the recognition of a significant amount of assets and liabilities, and, if such a consolidated IPP were operating at a loss and had insufficient equity, the potential recognition of such losses. If HECO and its subsidiaries determine they are required to consolidate the financial statements of such an IPP and the consolidation has a material effect, HECO and its subsidiaries would retrospectively apply FIN 46R in accordance with SFAS No. 154, “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.”

Kalaeloa Partners, L.P. In October 1988, HECO entered into a PPA with Kalaeloa, subsequently approved by the PUC, which provided that HECO would purchase 180 MW of firm capacity for a period of 25 years beginning in May 1991. In October 2004, HECO and Kalaeloa entered into amendments to the PPA, subsequently approved by the PUC, which together effectively increased the firm capacity from 180 MW to 208 MW. The energy payments that HECO makes to Kalaeloa include: 1) a fuel component, with a fuel price adjustment based on the cost of low sulfur fuel oil, 2) a fuel additives cost component and 3) a non-fuel component, with an adjustment based on changes in the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator. The capacity payments that HECO makes to Kalaeloa are fixed in accordance with the PPA.

 

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Kalaeloa is a Delaware limited partnership formed on October 13, 1988 for the purpose of designing, constructing, owning and operating a 200 MW cogeneration facility on Oahu, which includes two 75 MW oil-fired combustion turbines, two waste heat recovery steam generators, a 50 MW turbine generator and other electrical, mechanical and control equipment. The two combustion turbines were upgraded during 2004 resulting in an increase in the facility’s nominal output rating to approximately 220 MW. Kalaeloa has a PPA with HECO (described above) and a steam delivery contract with another customer, the term of which coincides with the PPA. The facility has been certified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a Qualifying Facility under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).

Pursuant to the provisions of FIN 46R, HECO is deemed to have a variable interest in Kalaeloa by reason of the provisions of HECO’s PPA with Kalaeloa. However, management has concluded that HECO is not the primary beneficiary of Kalaeloa because HECO does not absorb the majority of Kalealoa’s expected losses nor receive a majority of Kalaeloa’s expected residual returns and, thus, HECO has not consolidated Kalaeloa in its consolidated financial statements. A significant factor affecting the level of expected losses HECO would absorb is the fact that HECO’s exposure to fuel price variability is limited to the remaining term of the PPA as compared to the facility’s remaining useful life. Although HECO absorbs fuel price variability for the remaining term of the PPA, the PPA does not currently expose HECO to losses as the fuel and fuel related energy payments under the PPA have been approved by the PUC for recovery from customers through base electric rates and through HECO’s ECAC to the extent the fuel and fuel-related energy payments are not included in base energy rates.

Apollo Energy Corporation. In October 2004, HELCO and Apollo Energy Corporation (Apollo) executed a restated and amended PPA which enables Apollo to repower its 7 MW facility, and install additional capacity, for a total allowed capacity of 20.5 MW. In December 2005, Apollo assigned the PPA to a subsidiary, which voluntarily, unilaterally and irrevocably waived and relinquished its right and benefit under the PPA to collect the floor rate for the entire term of the PPA. The 20.5 MW facility began commercial operations in April 2007. Based on information available, management concluded that HELCO does not have to consolidate Apollo as HELCO does not have a variable interest in Apollo because the PPA does not require HELCO to absorb any variability of Apollo.

 

(3) Revenue taxes

HECO and its subsidiaries’ operating revenues include amounts for various revenue taxes. Revenue taxes are generally recorded as an expense in the period the related revenues are recognized. HECO and its subsidiaries’ payments to the taxing authorities are based on the prior year’s revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, HECO and its subsidiaries included approximately $83 million and $87 million, respectively, of revenue taxes in “operating revenues” and in “taxes, other than income taxes” expense.

 

(4) Retirement benefits

For the first six months of 2007, HECO and its subsidiaries contributed $4.2 million to their retirement benefit plans, compared to $5.1 million in the first six months of 2006. HECO and its subsidiaries’ current estimate of contributions to their retirement benefit plans in 2007 is $12.1 million, compared to contributions of $9.8 million in 2006. In addition, HECO and its subsidiaries expect to pay directly $0.5 million of benefits in 2007, compared to $0.6 million paid in 2006.

The components of net periodic benefit cost were as follows:

 

     Three months ended June 30     Six months ended June 30  
     Pension benefits     Other benefits     Pension benefits     Other benefits  
      2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006  
(in thousands)                                                 

Service cost

   $ 6,360     $ 6,819     $ 1,179     $ 1,247     $ 12,691     $ 13,359     $ 2,379     $ 2,482  

Interest cost

     12,864       12,135       2,696       2,510       25,686       24,174       5,483       5,169  

Expected return on plan assets

     (15,254 )     (16,301 )     (2,364 )     (2,452 )     (30,478 )     (32,233 )     (4,621 )     (4,879 )

Amortization of unrecognized transition obligation

     1       —         783       783       1       1       1,565       1,565  

Amortization of prior service gain

     (191 )     (192 )     —         —         (381 )     (385 )     —         —    

Recognized actuarial loss (gain)

     2,620       2,635       —         (19 )     5,236       5,349       —         194  
                                                                

Net periodic benefit cost

   $ 6,400     $ 5,096     $ 2,294     $ 2,069     $ 12,755     $ 10,265     $ 4,806     $ 4,531  
                                                                

 

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HECO and its subsidiaries recorded retirement benefits expense of $14 million and $11 million in the first six months of 2007 and 2006, respectively. The electric utilities charged a portion of the net periodic benefit costs to plant. Also, in an interim order issued in April 2007 (discussed below), the amount of HELCO’s net periodic benefit costs to be recovered in rates was established. Thus, any costs determined under SFAS No. 87, as amended, that are over/under this amount are charged/credited to a regulatory asset. Further, under the interim order, a regulatory asset (representing HELCO’s prepaid pension asset as of December 31, 2006 prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 158) was allowed to be recovered (and is being amortized) over a period of five years.

In an April 4, 2007 interim Decision and Order (D&O) in HELCO’s 2006 test year rate case, the PUC approved on an interim basis the adoption of a pension tracking mechanism proposed by the Division of Consumer Advocacy, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of the State of Hawaii (Consumer Advocate). The mechanism is intended to smooth the impact to ratepayers of potential fluctuations in pension costs, and generally would require HELCO to make contributions to the pension trust in the amount of the actuarially calculated net periodic pension cost that would be allowed without penalty by the tax laws. A similar tracking mechanism for postretirement benefits other than pensions was also approved on an interim basis. As a result of these approvals, which are subject to the PUC’s final D&O, HELCO reclassified, beginning April 5, 2007, to a regulatory asset the charge for retirement benefits that would otherwise be recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (pursuant to SFAS No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans”). Retirement benefits expense for HELCO for the second quarter of 2007 was $1.3 million, but would have been $0.9 million if the pension and OPEB tracking mechanisms had not been adopted.

 

(5) Commitments and contingencies

Interim increases

On September 27, 2005, the PUC issued an Interim D&O in HECO’s 2005 test year rate case granting a general rate increase on Oahu of 4.36%, or $53.3 million (3.33%, or $41.1 million excluding the transfer of certain costs from a surcharge line item on electric bills into base electricity charges), which was implemented on September 28, 2005.

On April 4, 2007, the PUC issued an interim D&O in HELCO’s 2006 test year rate case granting a general rate increase on the island of Hawaii of 7.58%, or $24.6 million, which was implemented on April 5, 2007.

As of June 30, 2007, HECO and its subsidiaries had recognized $110 million of revenues with respect to interim orders ($14 million related to interim orders regarding certain integrated resource planning costs and $96 million related to interim orders with respect to HECO’s and HELCO’s general rate increase requests based on a 2005 and 2006 test year, respectively, and HECO's interim surcharge to recover DG fuel and fuel trucking costs), which revenues are subject to refund, with interest, if and to the extent they exceed the amounts allowed in final orders.

Energy cost adjustment clauses

On June 19, 2006, the PUC issued an order in HECO’s pending rate case based on a 2005 test year, indicating that the record in the pending case has not been developed for the purpose of addressing the factors in Act 162, signed into law by the Governor of Hawaii on June 2, 2006. Act 162 states that any automatic fuel rate adjustment clause requested by a public utility in an application filed with the PUC shall be designed, as determined in the PUC’s discretion, to (1) fairly share the risk of fuel cost changes between the public utility and its customers, (2) provide the public utility with sufficient incentive to reasonably manage or lower its fuel costs and encourage greater use of renewable energy, (3) allow the public utility to mitigate the risk of sudden or frequent fuel cost changes that cannot otherwise reasonably be mitigated through other commercially available means, such as through fuel hedging contracts, (4) preserve, to the extent reasonably possible, the public utility’s financial integrity, and (5) minimize, to the extent reasonably possible, the public utility’s need to apply for frequent applications for general rate increases to account for the changes to its fuel costs. While the PUC already reviewed the automatic fuel rate adjustment clause in rate cases, Act 162 required that these five specific factors be addressed in the record. The PUC’s order requested the parties in the rate case proceeding to meet informally to determine a procedural schedule to address the issues relating to HECO’s ECAC that are raised by Act 162. The parties in the rate case proceeding are HECO, the Division of Consumer Advocacy, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of the State of Hawaii (Consumer Advocate), and the federal Department of Defense (DOD).

 

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On June 30, 2006, HECO and the Consumer Advocate filed a stipulation requesting that the PUC not review the Act 162 ECAC issues in the pending rate case based on a 2005 test year since HECO’s application was filed and the record in the proceeding was completed before Act 162 was signed into law, and the settlement agreement entered into by the parties in the rate case (subject to PUC approval) included a provision allowing the existing ECAC to be continued. On August 7, 2006, an amended stipulation was filed in substantially the same form as the June 30, 2006 stipulation, but also included the DOD. Management cannot predict whether the PUC will accept the disposition of the Act 162 issue proposed in the amended stipulation or, if not, the procedural steps or procedural schedule that will be adopted to address the issues that are raised by Act 162 or the timing of the PUC’s issuance of a final D&O in HECO’s pending 2005 test year rate case.

The ECAC provisions of Act 162 were reviewed in the HELCO rate case based on a 2006 test year and will be reviewed in the HECO and MECO rate cases based on 2007 test years. In the HELCO 2006 test year rate case, the filed testimony of the Consumer Advocate’s consultant concluded that HELCO’s ECAC provides a fair sharing of the risks of fuel cost changes between HELCO and its ratepayers in a manner that preserves the financial integrity of HELCO without the need for frequent rate filings. On April 4, 2007 the PUC issued an interim D&O in the HELCO 2006 test year rate case which reflected the continuation of HELCO’s ECAC, consistent with a settlement agreement reached between HELCO and the Consumer Advocate.

Management cannot predict the ultimate effect of the required Act 162 analysis on the continuation of the electric utilities’ existing ECACs.

On April 23, 2007, the PUC issued an order denying HECO’s proposal to recover DG fuel and trucking and low sulfur fuel oil (LFSO) trucking costs since January 1, 2006 through the reconciliation process for the ECAC. However, the PUC allowed HECO to establish and implement a new and separate interim surcharge to recover its additional DG and LFSO costs on a going forward basis. HECO implemented an interim surcharge to recover such costs incurred from May 1, 2007.

HELCO power situation

In 1991, HELCO began planning to meet increased electric generation demand forecast for 1994. It planned to install at its Keahole power plant two 20 MW combustion turbines (CT-4 and CT-5), followed by an 18 MW heat recovery steam generator (ST-7), at which time these units would be converted to a 56 MW (net) dual-train combined-cycle unit. In January 1994, the PUC approved expenditures for CT-4. In 1995, the PUC allowed HELCO to pursue construction of and commit expenditures for CT-5 and ST-7, but noted that such costs are not to be included in rate base until the project is installed and “is used and useful for utility purposes.” As a result of the final resolution of various proceedings, CT-4 and CT-5 became operational in mid-2004, there are no pending lawsuits involving the project, and work on ST-7 is proceeding. Noise mitigation equipment has been installed on CT-4 and CT-5 and additional noise mitigation work is ongoing to ensure compliance with the night-time noise standard applicable to the plant. Currently, HELCO can operate the generating units at Keahole as required to meet its system needs. Construction of a noise barrier is scheduled for completion by the end of 2007, which should allow the units to operate full time.

Settlement Agreement; ST-7 costs incurred. In 2003, the parties opposing the plant expansion project (other than Waimana Enterprises, Inc. (Waimana), which did not participate in the settlement discussions and opposed the settlement) entered into a settlement agreement with HELCO and several Hawaii regulatory agencies, intended in part to permit HELCO to complete CT-4 and CT-5 (Settlement Agreement). The Settlement Agreement required HELCO to undertake a number of actions including expediting efforts to obtain the permits and approvals necessary for installation of ST-7 with selective catalytic reduction emissions control equipment, assisting the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in installing solar water heating in its housing projects, supporting the Keahole Defense Coalition’s participation in certain PUC cases, and cooperating with neighbors and community groups (including a Hot Line service). Other than required payments to other parties to the settlement agreement, which were timely made, many of these actions are ongoing.

HELCO’s plans for ST-7 are progressing. In November 2003, HELCO filed a boundary amendment petition (to reclassify the Keahole plant site from conservation land use to urban land use) with the State of Hawaii Land Use Commission, which boundary amendment was approved in October 2005. In May 2006, HELCO obtained the County

 

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of Hawaii rezoning to a “General Industrial” classification, and in June 2006, received approval for a covered source permit amendment to include selective catalytic reduction with the installation of ST-7. Management believes that any other required permits will be obtained and anticipates an in-service date for ST-7 in late 2009. HELCO has commenced engineering, design and certain construction work for ST-7. HELCO’s current cost estimate for ST-7 is approximately $92 million, of which approximately $3.7 million has been incurred through June 30, 2007.

CT-4 and CT-5 costs incurred. HELCO’s capitalized costs incurred in its efforts to put CT-4 and CT-5 into service and to support existing units (excluding costs for pre-air permit facilities) amounted to approximately $110 million. The $110 million of costs was reclassified from construction in progress to plant and equipment in 2004 ($103 million) and 2005 ($7 million) and depreciated beginning January 1, 2005 and 2006, respectively, and HELCO sought recovery of these costs as part of its 2006 test year rate case.

In March 2007, HELCO and the Consumer Advocate reached a settlement of the issues in the HELCO 2006 rate case proceeding, subject to PUC approval. Under the settlement, HELCO agreed to write-off approximately $12 million of plant-in-service costs, net of average accumulated depreciation, relating to CT-4 and CT-5, resulting in an after-tax charge to net income in the first quarter of 2007 of approximately $7 million (included in “Other, net” under “Other income (loss)” on HECO’s consolidated statement of income).

In April 2007, the PUC issued an interim D&O granting HELCO a 7.58% increase in rates, which reflects the settlement agreement reached between HELCO and the Consumer Advocate, including the agreement to write-off a portion of CT-4 and CT-5 costs. However, the interim order does not commit the PUC to accept any of the amounts in the interim increase in its final order. If it becomes probable that the PUC, in its final order, will disallow additional costs incurred for CT-4 and CT-5 for rate-making purposes, HELCO will be required to record an additional write-off.

East Oahu Transmission Project (EOTP)

HECO transmits bulk power to the Honolulu/East Oahu area over two major transmission corridors (Northern and Southern). HECO had planned to construct a partial underground/partial overhead 138 kilovolt (kV) line from the Kamoku substation to the Pukele substation, which serves approximately 16% of Oahu’s electrical load, including Waikiki, in order to close the gap between the Southern and Northern corridors and provide a third transmission line to the Pukele substation. However, in June 2002, an application for a permit which would have allowed construction in the originally planned route through conservation district lands was denied.

HECO continued to believe that the proposed reliability project (the East Oahu Transmission Project) was needed and, in December 2003, filed an application with the PUC requesting approval to commit funds (currently estimated at $64 million; see costs incurred below) for a revised EOTP using a 46 kV system. In March 2004, the PUC granted intervenor status to an environmental organization and three elected officials (collectively treated as one party), and a more limited participant status to four community organizations. The environmental review process for the revised EOTP was completed and the PUC issued a Finding of No Significant Impact in April 2005.

In written testimony filed in June 2005, the consultant for the Consumer Advocate contended that HECO should always have planned for a project using only the 46 kV system and recommended that HECO be required to expense the $12 million incurred prior to the denial in 2002 of the approval necessary for the partial underground/partial overhead 138 kV line, and the related allowance for funds used during construction (AFUDC) of $5 million. In rebuttal testimony filed in August 2005, HECO contested the consultant’s recommendation, emphasizing that the originally proposed 138 kV line would have been a more comprehensive and robust solution to the transmission concerns the project addressed. The PUC held an evidentiary hearing on HECO’s application in November 2005, and post-hearing briefing was completed in March 2006. Just prior to the November 2005 evidentiary hearing, the PUC approved that part of a stipulation between HECO and the Consumer Advocate providing that (i) this proceeding should determine whether HECO should be given approval to expend funds for the EOTP, but with the understanding that no part of the EOTP costs may be recovered from ratepayers unless and until the PUC grants HECO recovery in a rate case (which is consistent with other projects) and (ii) the issue as to whether the pre-2003 planning and permitting costs, and related AFUDC, should be included in the project costs is reserved to, and may be raised in, the next HECO rate case (or other proceeding) in which HECO seeks approval to recover the EOTP costs.

 

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Subject to obtaining PUC approval and other construction permits, HECO plans to construct the revised project, none of which is in conservation district lands, in two phases. The first phase is currently projected to be completed in 2009, subject to the timing of PUC approval, and the completion date of the second phase is being evaluated.

As of June 30, 2007, the accumulated costs recorded for the EOTP amounted to $31 million, including (i) $12 million of planning and permitting costs incurred prior to 2003, (ii) $5 million of planning and permitting costs incurred after 2002 and (iii) $14 million for AFUDC. Management believes no adjustment to project costs is required as of June 30, 2007. However, if it becomes probable that the PUC will disallow some or all of the incurred costs for rate-making purposes, HECO may be required to write off a material portion or all of the project costs incurred in its efforts to put the project into service whether or not it is completed.

Environmental regulation

HEI and its subsidiaries are subject to environmental laws and regulations that regulate the operation of existing facilities, the construction and operation of new facilities and the proper cleanup and disposal of hazardous waste and toxic substances.

HECO, HELCO and MECO, like other utilities, periodically identify petroleum or other chemical releases into the environment associated with current operations and report and take action on these releases when and as required by applicable law and regulations. Except as otherwise disclosed herein, the Company believes the costs of responding to its subsidiaries’ releases identified to date will not have a material adverse effect, individually or in the aggregate, on the Company’s or consolidated HECO’s financial statements.

Additionally, current environmental laws may require HEI and its subsidiaries to investigate whether releases from historical operations may have contributed to environmental impacts, and, where appropriate, respond to such releases, even if they were not inconsistent with law or standard industrial practices prevailing at the time when they occurred. Such releases may involve area-wide impacts contributed to by multiple potentially responsible parties.

Honolulu Harbor investigation. In 1995, the Department of Health of the State of Hawaii (DOH) issued letters indicating that it had identified a number of parties, including HECO, who appeared to be potentially responsible for historical subsurface petroleum contamination and/or operated their facilities upon petroleum-contaminated land at or near Honolulu Harbor in the Iwilei district of Honolulu. Certain of the identified parties formed a work group to determine the nature and extent of any contamination and appropriate response actions, as well as to identify additional potentially responsible parties (PRPs). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) became involved in the investigation in June 2000. Later in 2000, the DOH issued notices to additional PRPs. The parties in the work group and some of the new PRPs (collectively, the Participating Parties) entered into a joint defense agreement and signed a voluntary response agreement with the DOH. The Participating Parties agreed to fund investigative and remediation work using an interim cost allocation method (subject to a final allocation) and have organized a limited liability company to perform the work.

In 2001, management developed a preliminary estimate of HECO’s share of costs for continuing investigative work, remedial activities and monitoring at the Iwilei Unit of approximately $1.1 million (which was expensed in 2001). Since 2001, subsurface investigation and assessment have been conducted and several preliminary oil removal tasks have been performed at the Iwilei Unit in accordance with notices of interest issued by the EPA and the DOH.

In 2003, HECO and other Participating Parties with active operations in the Iwilei area investigated their operations to evaluate whether their facilities were active sources of petroleum contamination in the area. HECO’s investigation concluded that its facilities were not then releasing petroleum. Routine maintenance and inspections of HECO facilities since then confirm that they are not currently releasing petroleum.

During 2006 and the beginning of 2007, the PRPs developed analyses of various remedial alternatives for two of the four remedial subunits of the Iwilei Unit. The DOH will use the analyses to make a final determination of which remedial alternatives the PRPs will be required to implement. The DOH is scheduled to complete the final remediation determinations for all remedial subunits of the Iwilei Unit by the end of 2007 or first quarter of 2008. HECO management developed an estimate of HECO’s share of the costs associated with implementing the PRP recommended remedial approaches for the two subunits covered by the analyses of approximately $1.2 million, (which was expensed in 2006).

 

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As of June 30, 2007, the accrual (amounts expensed less amounts expended) related to the Honolulu Harbor investigation was $1.4 million. Because (1) the full scope of additional investigative work, remedial activities and monitoring remain to be determined, (2) the final cost allocation method among the PRPs has not yet been established and (3) management cannot estimate the costs to be incurred (if any) for the sites other than the Iwilei Unit (such as its Honolulu power plant, which is located in the “Downtown” unit of the Honolulu Harbor site), the cost estimate may be subject to significant change and additional material investigative and remedial costs may be incurred.

Regional Haze Rule amendments. In June 2005, the EPA finalized amendments to the July 1999 Regional Haze Rule that require emission controls known as best available retrofit technology (BART) for industrial facilities emitting air pollutants that reduce visibility in National Parks by causing or contributing to regional haze. States must develop BART implementation plans and schedules in accordance with the amended regional haze rule by December 2007. After Hawaii adopts its plan, HECO, HELCO and MECO will evaluate the plan’s impacts, if any, on them. If any of the utilities’ generating units are ultimately required to install post-combustion control technologies to meet BART emission limits, the resulting capital and operation and maintenance costs could be significant.

Clean Water Act. Section 316(b) of the federal Clean Water Act requires that the EPA ensure that existing power plant cooling water intake structures reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impacts. Effective September 9, 2004, the EPA issued a rule, which established location and technology-based design, construction and capacity standards for existing cooling water intake structures. These standards applied to HECO’s Kahe, Waiau and Honolulu generating stations, unless the utility could demonstrate that at each facility implementation of these standards would result in costs either significantly higher than projected costs the EPA considered in establishing the standards for the facility (cost-cost test) or significantly greater than the benefits of meeting the standards (cost-benefit test). In either case, the EPA would then make a case-by-case determination of an appropriate performance standard. The regulation also would have allowed restoration of aquatic organism populations in lieu of meeting the standards. The rule required covered facilities to demonstrate compliance by March 2008. HECO had retained a consultant that was developing a cost effective compliance strategy and a preliminary assessment of technologies and operational measures under the rule.

On January 25, 2007, the U.S. Circuit Court for the Second Circuit issued a decision in Riverkeeper, Inc. v. EPA that remanded for further consideration and proceedings significant portions of the rule and found other portions of the rule to be impermissible. In particular, the court determined that restoration and the cost-benefit test were impermissible under the Clean Water Act. It also remanded the best technology available determination to permit the EPA to provide a reasoned explanation for its decision or a new determination. It remanded the cost-cost test for the EPA’s further consideration based on the best technology available determination and to afford adequate notice. The EPA is considering an appeal of the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the decision stands, the Court of Appeals ruling reduces the compliance options available to HECO. In addition, the EPA has not issued a schedule for rulemaking, which would be necessary to comply with the court’s decision. On March 20, 2007, the EPA announced it had “suspended” the rule pending appeal or additional rulemaking. On July 9, 2007, the EPA formalized its determination to suspend the rule in a Federal Register notice. In the announcement, the EPA provided guidance to federal and state permit writers that they should use their “best professional judgment” in determining permit conditions regarding cooling water intake requirements at existing power plants. Currently, this guidance does not affect the HECO facilities subject to the cooling water intake requirements because none of the facilities are subject to permit renewal until mid-2009. Due to the uncertainties raised by the court’s decision as well as the need for further rulemaking by the EPA, management is unable to predict which compliance options, some of which could entail significant capital expenditures to implement, will be applicable to its facilities.

Collective bargaining agreements

As of June 30, 2007, approximately 58% of the electric utilities’ employees are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local 1260, Unit 8, which is the only union representing employees of the Company. The current collective bargaining and benefit agreements cover a four-year term, from November 1, 2003 to October 31, 2007, and provided for non-compounded wage increases (3% on November 1, 2003; 1.5% on

 

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November 1, 2004, May 1, 2005, November 1, 2005 and May 1, 2006; and 3% on November 1, 2006). Negotiations for new agreements are expected to begin in the third quarter of 2007.

 

(6) Cash flows

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information

For the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, HECO and its subsidiaries paid interest amounting to $23.5 million and $22.7 million, respectively.

For the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, HECO and its subsidiaries paid income taxes amounting to $5.2 million and $5.5 million, respectively.

Supplemental disclosure of noncash activities

The allowance for equity funds used during construction, which was charged to construction in progress as part of the cost of electric utility plant, amounted to $2.4 million and $3.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively.

 

(7) Recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations

For a discussion of recent accounting pronouncements and interpretations, see Note 9 of HEI’s “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.”

 

(8) Income taxes

The electric utilities record interest and penalties on income taxes in “Interest and other charges.” Interest accrued on income taxes was insignificant in the first six months of 2006 and $0.2 million in the first six months of 2007.

As of January 1, 2007, the total amount of accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions and recognized on the balance sheet was $0.6 million.

As of January 1, 2007, the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits was $4.7 million, and of this amount, $0.2 million, if recognized, would affect the electric utilities’ effective tax rate. Management concluded that it is reasonably possible that the unrecognized tax benefits will significantly decrease within the next 12 months due to the resolution of issues under examination by the Internal Revenue Service. Management cannot estimate the range of the reasonably possible change.

Tax years 2003 to 2006 currently remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Taxation of the State of Hawaii.

The electric utilities had an effective tax rate for the first six months of 2007 of 35%, compared to 38% for the first six months of 2006), primarily due to the low pre-tax income and the impact of state tax credits (including the acceleration of the state tax credits associated with the write off of a portion of CT-4 and CT-5 costs) recognized against a smaller income tax expense base.

 

(9) Reconciliation of electric utility operating income per HEI and HECO consolidated statements of income

 

    

Three months ended

June 30

   

Six months ended

June 30

 
      2007     2006     2007     2006  
(in thousands)                         

Operating income from regulated and nonregulated activities before income taxes (per HEI consolidated statements of income)

   $ 28,789     $ 39,846     $ 41,781     $ 85,426  

Deduct:

        

Income taxes on regulated activities

     (6,492 )     (11,020 )     (10,998 )     (24,244 )

Revenues from nonregulated activities

     (1,463 )     (617 )     (2,344 )     (1,702 )

Add: Expenses from nonregulated activities

     388       293       12,286       584  
                                

Operating income from regulated activities after income taxes (per HECO consolidated statements of income)

   $ 21,222     $ 28,502     $ 40,725     $ 60,064  
                                

 

(10) Credit agreement

Effective April 3, 2006, HECO entered into a revolving unsecured credit agreement establishing a line of credit facility of $175 million with a syndicate of eight financial institutions. On March 14, 2007 the PUC issued a D&O approving HECO’s request to maintain the credit facility for five years (until March 31, 2011), to borrow under the credit facility with maturities in excess of 364 days, to use the proceeds from any borrowings with

 

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maturities in excess of 364 days to finance capital expenditures and/or to repay short-term or other borrowings used to finance or refinance capital expenditures and to use an expedited approval process to obtain PUC approval to increase the facility amount, renew the facility, refinance the facility or change other terms of the facility if such changes are required or desirable.

Any draws on the facility bear interest, at the option of HECO, at either the “Adjusted LIBO Rate” plus 40 basis points or the greater of (a) the “Prime Rate” and (b) the sum of the “Federal Funds Rate” plus 50 basis points, as defined in the agreement. The annual fee is 8 basis points on the undrawn commitment amount. The agreement contains provisions for revised pricing in the event of a ratings change. For example, a ratings downgrade of HECO’s Senior Debt Rating (e.g., from BBB+/Baa1 to BBB/Baa2 by S&P and Moody’s, respectively) would result in a commitment fee increase of 2 basis points and an interest rate increase of 10 basis points on any drawn amounts. On the other hand, a ratings upgrade (e.g., from BBB+/Baa1 to A-/A3) would result in a commitment fee decrease of 1 basis point and an interest rate decrease of 10 basis points on any drawn amounts. The agreement does not contain clauses that would affect access to the lines by reason of a ratings downgrade, nor does it have a broad “material adverse change” clause. However, the agreement does contain customary conditions that must be met in order to draw on it, such as the accuracy of certain of its representations at the time of a draw and compliance with its covenants (such as covenants preventing its subsidiaries from entering into agreements that restrict the ability of the subsidiaries to pay dividends to, or to repay borrowings from, HECO, and restricting HECO’s ability, as well as the ability of any of its subsidiaries, to guarantee indebtedness of the subsidiaries if such additional debt would cause the subsidiary’s “Consolidated Subsidiary Funded Debt to Capitalization Ratio” to exceed 65% (ratios of 48% for HELCO and 43% for MECO as of June 30, 2007, as calculated under the agreement)). In addition to customary defaults, HECO’s failure to maintain its financial ratios, as defined in its agreement, or meet other requirements will result in an event of default. For example, under the agreement, it is an event of default if HECO fails to maintain a “Consolidated Capitalization Ratio” (equity) of at least 35% (ratio of 54% as of June 30, 2007, as calculated under the agreement), if HECO fails to remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of HEI or if any event or condition occurs that results in any “Material Indebtedness” of HECO or any of its significant subsidiaries being subject to acceleration prior to its scheduled maturity. HECO’s syndicated credit facility is maintained to support the issuance of commercial paper, but it may also be drawn for general corporate purposes and capital expenditures. As of August 1, 2007, the $175 million credit facility remained undrawn.

On May 23, 2007, S&P lowered the long-term corporate credit and unsecured debt ratings on HECO, HELCO and MECO to BBB from BBB+ and stated that the downgrade “is the result of sustained weak bondholder protection parameters compounded by the financial pressure that continuous need for regulatory relief, driven by heightened capital expenditure requirements, is creating for the next few years.” The pricing for future borrowings under the line of credit facility did not change since the pricing level is "determined by the higher of the two" ratings by S&P and Moody's, and Moody’s ratings did not change.

 

(11) Special Purpose Revenue Bonds (SPRBs)

On March 27, 2007, the Department of Budget and Finance of the State of Hawaii (the Department) issued (pursuant to a 2005 legislative authorization), at par, Series 2007A SPRBs in the aggregate principal amount of $140 million, with a maturity of March 1, 2037 and a fixed coupon interest rate of 4.65%, and loaned the proceeds to HECO ($100 million), HELCO ($20 million) and MECO ($20 million). Payment of the principal and interest on the SPRBs are insured by a surety bond issued by Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. Proceeds will be used to finance capital expenditures, including reimbursements to the electric utilities for previously incurred capital expenditures which, in turn, will be used primarily to repay short-term borrowings. As of June 30, 2007, approximately $44 million of proceeds from the Series 2007A SPRBs had not yet been drawn and were held by the construction fund trustee. HECO, HELCO and MECO’s long-term debt will increase from time to time as these remaining proceeds are drawn down.

On March 27, 2007, the Department issued, at par, Refunding Series 2007B SPRBs in the aggregate principal amount of $125 million, with a maturity of May 1, 2026 and a fixed coupon interest rate of 4.60%, and loaned the proceeds to HECO ($62 million), HELCO ($8 million) and MECO ($55 million). Proceeds from the sale were applied, together with other funds provided by the electric utilities, to the redemption at par on May 1, 2007 of the $75 million

 

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aggregate principal amount of 6.20% Series 1996A SPRBs (which had an original maturity of May 1, 2026) and to the redemption at a 2% premium on April 27, 2007 of the $50 million aggregate principal amount of 5 7/8% Series 1996B SPRBs (which had an original maturity of December 1, 2026). Payment of the principal and interest on the refunding SPRBs are insured by a surety bond issued by Financial Guaranty Insurance Company.

 

(12) Consolidating financial information

HECO is not required to provide separate financial statements or other disclosures concerning HELCO and MECO to holders of the 2004 Debentures issued by HELCO and MECO to Trust III since all of their voting capital stock is owned, and their obligations with respect to these securities have been fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a subordinated basis, by HECO. Consolidating information is provided below for these and other HECO subsidiaries for the periods ended and as of the dates indicated.

HECO also unconditionally guarantees HELCO’s and MECO’s obligations (a) to the State of Hawaii for the repayment of principal and interest on Special Purpose Revenue Bonds issued for the benefit of HELCO and MECO and (b) relating to the trust preferred securities of Trust III. Also, see Note 2. HECO is also obligated, after the satisfaction of its obligations on its own preferred stock, to make dividend, redemption and liquidation payments on HELCO’s and MECO’s preferred stock if the respective subsidiary is unable to make such payments.

 

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Consolidating Statement of Income (unaudited)

Three months ended June 30, 2007

 

(in thousands)

   HECO     HELCO     MECO     RHI    

Reclassi-
fications

and

elimina-

tions

   

HECO

consoli-

dated

 

Operating revenues

   $ 319,652     86,644     84,953     —       —       $ 491,249  
                                        

Operating expenses

            

Fuel oil

     109,775     15,667     41,679     —       —         167,121  

Purchased power

     92,419     33,420     7,888     —       —         133,727  

Other operation

     36,845     8,156     8,642     —       —         53,643  

Maintenance

     17,639     5,405     6,825     —       —         29,869  

Depreciation

     19,745     7,523     7,004     —       —         34,272  

Taxes, other than income taxes

     29,264     7,944     7,695     —       —         44,903  

Income taxes

     3,085     2,326     1,081     —       —         6,492  
                                        
     308,772     80,441     80,814     —       —         470,027  
                                        

Operating income

     10,880     6,203     4,139     —       —         21,222  
                                        

Other income

            

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     1,044     68     90     —       —         1,202  

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     5,764     —       —       —       (5,764 )     —    

Other, net

     1,250     171     251     (14 )   (609 )     1,049  
                                        
     8,058     239     341     (14 )   (6,373 )     2,251  
                                        

Income (loss) before interest and other charges

     18,938     6,442     4,480     (14 )   (6,373 )     23,473  
                                        

Interest and other charges

            

Interest on long-term debt

     7,324     1,915     2,151     —       —         11,390  

Amortization of net bond premium and expense

     400     106     140     —       —         646  

Other interest charges

     802     608     73     —       (609 )     874  

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     (508 )   (34 )   (44 )   —       —         (586 )

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     —       —       —       —       229       229  
                                        
     8,018     2,595     2,320     —       (380 )     12,553  
                                        

Income (loss) before preferred stock dividends of HECO

     10,920     3,847     2,160     (14 )   (5,993 )     10,920  

Preferred stock dividends of HECO

     270     133     96     —       (229 )     270  
                                        

Net income (loss) for common stock

   $ 10,650     3,714     2,064     (14 )   (5,764 )   $ 10,650  
                                        

 

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Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Consolidating Statement of Income (unaudited)

Three months ended June 30, 2006

 

(in thousands)

   HECO     HELCO     MECO     RHI    

Reclassi-
fications

and

elimina-

tions

   

HECO

consoli-

dated

 

Operating revenues

   $ 339,213     80,736     83,401     —       —       $ 503,350  
                                        

Operating expenses

            

Fuel oil

     130,757     18,035     43,522     —       —         192,314  

Purchased power

     86,527     30,118     5,793     —       —         122,438  

Other operation

     32,209     7,760     7,965     —       —         47,934  

Maintenance

     14,829     4,077     3,476     —       —         22,382  

Depreciation

     18,702     7,431     6,409     —       —         32,542  

Taxes, other than income taxes

     31,076     7,540     7,602     —       —         46,218  

Income taxes

     6,928     1,233     2,859     —       —         11,020  
                                        
     321,028     76,194     77,626     —       —         474,848  
                                        

Operating income

     18,185     4,542     5,775     —       —         28,502  
                                        

Other income

            

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     916     53     619     —       —         1,588  

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     6,376     —       —       —       (6,376 )     —    

Other, net

     918     58     284     (55 )   (684 )     521  
                                        
     8,210     111     903     (55 )   (7,060 )     2,109  
                                        

Income (loss) before interest and other charges

     26,395     4,653     6,678     (55 )   (7,060 )     30,611  
                                        

Interest and other charges

            

Interest on long-term debt

     6,741     1,808     2,227     —       —         10,776  

Amortization of net bond premium and expense

     339     101     103     —       —         543  

Other interest charges

     2,168     650     92     —       (684 )     2,226  

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     (409 )   (23 )   (287 )   —       —         (719 )

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     —       —       —       —       229       229  
                                        
     8,839     2,536     2,135     —       (455 )     13,055  
                                        

Income (loss) before preferred stock dividends of HECO

     17,556     2,117     4,543     (55 )   (6,605 )     17,556  

Preferred stock dividends of HECO

     270     133     96     —       (229 )     270  
                                        

Net income (loss) for common stock

   $ 17,286     1,984     4,447     (55 )   (6,376 )   $ 17,286  
                                        

 

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Consolidating Statement of Income (unaudited)

Six months ended June 30, 2007

 

(in thousands)

   HECO     HELCO     MECO     RHI    

Reclassi-
fications

and

elimina-

tions

   

HECO

consoli-

dated

 

Operating revenues

   $ 608,342     165,453     164,251     —       —       $ 938,046  
                                        

Operating expenses

            

Fuel oil

     210,837     35,705     80,508     —       —         327,050  

Purchased power

     170,719     60,482     14,042     —       —         245,243  

Other operation

     70,330     15,322     15,184     —       —         100,836  

Maintenance

     34,017     10,973     12,215     —       —         57,205  

Depreciation

     39,484     15,047     14,008     —       —         68,539  

Taxes, other than income taxes

     56,966     15,307     15,177     —       —         87,450  

Income taxes

     5,055     2,864     3,079     —       —         10,998  
                                        
     587,408     155,700     154,213     —       —         897,321  
                                        

Operating income

     20,934     9,753     10,038     —       —         40,725  
                                        

Other income

            

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     2,131     133     170     —       —         2,434  

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     2,827     —       —       —       (2,827 )     —    

Other, net

     2,735     (6,692 )   257     (29 )   (1,420 )     (5,149 )
                                        
     7,693     (6,559 )   427     (29 )   (4,247 )     (2,715 )
                                        

Income (loss) before interest and other charges

     28,627     3,194     10,465     (29 )   (4,247 )     38,010  
                                        

Interest and other charges

            

Interest on long-term debt

     14,449     3,772     4,665     —       —         22,886  

Amortization of net bond premium and expense

     748     205     239     —       —         1,192  

Other interest charges

     2,824     1,365     246     —       (1,420 )     3,015  

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     (1,037 )   (65 )   (82 )   —       —         (1,184 )

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     —       —       —       —       458       458  
                                        
     16,984     5,277     5,068     —       (962 )     26,367  
                                        

Income (loss) before preferred stock dividends of HECO

     11,643     (2,083 )   5,397     (29 )   (3,285 )     11,643  

Preferred stock dividends of HECO

     540     267     191     —       (458 )     540  
                                        

Net income (loss) for common stock

   $ 11,103     (2,350 )   5,206     (29 )   (2,827 )   $ 11,103  
                                        

 

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Consolidating Statement of Income (unaudited)

Six months ended June 30, 2006

 

(in thousands)

   HECO     HELCO     MECO     RHI    

Reclassi-
fications

and

elimina-

tions

   

HECO

consoli-

dated

 

Operating revenues

   $ 657,558     160,187     159,576     —       —       $ 977,321  
                                        

Operating expenses

            

Fuel oil

     246,492     38,137     83,023     —       —         367,652  

Purchased power

     171,981     58,164     10,013     —       —         240,158  

Other operation

     60,410     15,012     14,531     —       —         89,953  

Maintenance

     25,386     7,693     6,355     —       —         39,434  

Depreciation

     37,395     14,862     12,818     —       —         65,075  

Taxes, other than income taxes

     60,972     14,943     14,826     —       —         90,741  

Income taxes

     15,985     2,404     5,855     —       —         24,244  
                                        
     618,621     151,215     147,421     —       —         917,257  
                                        

Operating income

     38,937     8,972     12,155     —       —         60,064  
                                        

Other income

            

Allowance for equity funds used during construction

     1,993     93     1,050     —       —         3,136  

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     13,033     —       —       —       (13,033 )     —    

Other, net

     2,159     128     511     (102 )   (1,266 )     1,430  
                                        
     17,185     221     1,561     (102 )   (14,299 )     4,566  
                                        

Income (loss) before interest and other charges

     56,122     9,193     13,716     (102 )   (14,299 )     64,630  
                                        

Interest and other charges

            

Interest on long-term debt

     13,484     3,616     4,454     —       —         21,554  

Amortization of net bond premium and expense

     678     201     207     —       —         1,086  

Other interest charges

     4,038     1,232     135     —       (1,266 )     4,139  

Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction

     (892 )   (42 )   (487 )   —       —         (1,421 )

Preferred stock dividends of subsidiaries

     —       —       —       —       458       458  
                                        
     17,308     5,007     4,309     —       (808 )     25,816  
                                        

Income (loss) before preferred stock dividends of HECO

     38,814     4,186     9,407     (102 )   (13,491 )     38,814  

Preferred stock dividends of HECO

     540     267     191     —       (458 )     540  
                                        

Net income (loss) for common stock

   $ 38,274     3,919     9,216     (102 )   (13,033 )   $ 38,274  
                                        

 

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Consolidating Balance Sheet (unaudited)

June 30, 2007

 

(in thousands)

   HECO     HELCO     MECO     RHI   

Reclassi-
fications

and

elimina-

tions

   

HECO

consoli-

dated

 

Assets

             

Utility plant, at cost

             

Land

   $ 25,895     4,982     4,346     —      —       $ 35,223  

Plant and equipment

     2,466,982     808,860     778,159     —      —         4,054,001  

Less accumulated depreciation

     (978,030 )   (310,855 )   (319,761 )   —      —         (1,608,646 )

Plant acquisition adjustment, net

     —       —       67     —      —         67  

Construction in progress

     84,450     15,427     6,728     —      —         106,605  
                                       

Net utility plant

     1,599,297     518,414     469,539     —      —         2,587,250  
                                       

Investment in subsidiaries, at equity

     389,275     —       —       —      (389,275 )     —    
                                       

Current assets

             

Cash and equivalents

     2,290     1,212     1,109     250    —         4,861  

Advances to affiliates

     39,450     —       1,000     —      (40,450 )     —    

Customer accounts receivable, net

     87,340     24,627     20,770     —      —         132,737  

Accrued unbilled revenues, net

     54,592     15,054     13,552     —      —         83,198  

Other accounts receivable, net

     3,581     457     4,334     —      (2,679 )     5,693  

Fuel oil stock, at average cost

     59,737     10,762     17,961     —      —         88,460  

Materials and supplies, at average cost

     15,354     5,297     12,943     —      —         33,594  

Other

     7,504     1,008     293     —      —         8,805  
                                       

Total current assets

     269,848     58,417     71,962     250    (43,129 )     357,348  
                                       

Other long-term assets

             

Regulatory assets

     83,745     32,387     16,473     —      —         132,605  

Unamortized debt expense

     10,869     2,519     2,649     —      —         16,037  

Other

     26,148     4,175     4,715     —      —         35,038  
                                       

Total other long-term assets

     120,762     39,081     23,837     —      —         183,680  
                                       
   $ 2,379,182     615,912     565,338     250    (432,404 )   $ 3,128,278  
                                       

Capitalization and liabilities

             

Capitalization

             

Common stock equity

   $ 990,560     191,200     197,839     236    (389,275 )   $ 990,560  

Cumulative preferred stock–not

subject to mandatory redemption

     22,293     7,000     5,000     —      —         34,293  

Long-term debt, net

     555,800     143,159     164,865     —      —         863,824  
                                       

Total capitalization

     1,568,653     341,359     367,704     236    (389,275 )     1,888,677  
                                       

Current liabilities

             

Short-term borrowings–nonaffiliates

     52,626     —       —       —      —         52,626  

Short-term borrowings–affiliate

     1,000     39,450     —       —      (40,450 )     — &