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Reporting Period: Jun 29, 2018
Derivatives and Hedging. In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-12, “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities,” which is intended to improve and simplify accounting rules around hedge accounting. The amendments in ASU No. 2017-12 improve the financial reporting of hedging relationships to better portray the economic results of an entity’s risk management activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships and the presentation of hedge results in the financial statements. The amendments also expand and refine hedge accounting for both nonfinancial and financial risk components and align the recognition and presentation of the effects of the hedging instrument and the hedged item in the financial statements. For public business entities, the new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those annual periods, but early adoption is permitted. The Company early adopted ASU No. 2017-12 in the second quarter of 2018, with an effective date of April 1, 2018, and the adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
except for the narrow issue of whether the ROACE should be reduced from 9.75% by up to 25 basis points based solely on the impact of decoupling, considering current circumstances and relevant precedents. The parties agreed that the ROACE issue shall be addressed based on the information contained in the record without the need for an evidentiary hearing, and further agreed to the use of a 9.50% ROACE for the limited purpose of determining the revenue requirement for the interim order. The joint statement of probable entitlement reflects a general rate increase of $6.4 million over revenues at current effective rates (for a 1.95% increase in revenues) based on 7.43% rate of return (which incorporates a ROACE of 9.5% and a capital structure that includes a 57% common equity capitalization) on a $465 million rate base. The general rate increase would be $12.5 million over revenues at current effective rates with the depreciation rates approved in the depreciation proceeding. In the decision and order issued on July 30, 2018 in the depreciation proceeding, the PUC ordered that the effective date of the approved depreciation rates shall coincide with the effective date of interim or final rates in each of the Utilities’ subsequent general rate case proceedings, beginning with Maui Electric’s 2018 test year rate case. The PUC may consider the Parties’ joint statement of probable entitlement in issuing its interim order. The interim D&O is scheduled for August 13, 2018.
Potential impact of lava flows. In May 2018, a lava eruption occurred within the Leilani Estates subdivision, located along the lower East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano in the Puna district on the island of Hawaii. Since the time of the initial event, over 20 fissures have erupted lava and gas in the area covering approximately 12.8 square miles or 8,000 acres of land. Approximately 3,000 of the 86,000 Hawaii Electric Light customers reside in that area and over 1,000 customers have evacuated their homes, some permanently. The lava flow is currently concentrated to fissure #8, located within Leilani Estates, which is active and feeding a perched lava channel leading northeastward from the vent toward the Kapoho region. The flow has damaged some of Hawaii Electric Light’s property in the affected area and has also resulted in the shutdown of independent power producer PGV’s facilities. PGV has retained all of its employees despite the current shutdown and will evaluate the future availability of that plant. Hawaii Electric Light continues to serve the load of Hawaii Island without capacity from PGV, and the Utilities expect to meet its 2020 RPS goals without the return of PGV to service. Although the lava eruption continues and is unpredictable, the financial impact to Hawaii Electric Light to date has not been material.
Expedited Funds Availability Act of 1987 (EFA Act) and the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act of 2003 (Check 21 Act). The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System amended Regulation CC, Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks, which implements EFA Act and Check 21 Act effective July 1, 2018. The Board of Governors modified the current check collection and returns requirement to reflect the virtually all-electronic check collection and return environment and to encourage all depository banks to receive, and paying banks to send, returned checks electronically. The Board of Governors applied Regulation CC’s existing check warranties to checks that are collected electronically, and adopted new warranties and indemnities related to checks collected and returned electronically and to electronically-created items.
Potential impact of lava flows. In May 2018, a lava eruption occurred within the Leilani Estates subdivision, located along the lower East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano in the Puna district on the island of Hawaii. ASB has been monitoring its loan exposure
on properties most likely to be impacted by the path of the lava flow. None of the bank’s branches have been damaged by the lava flow and the bank has limited exposure to residential loan losses due to its decision in 2014 to cease originations in the designated lava zone areas. The bank has one commercial real estate loan and four commercial loans with businesses located in Pahoa, near the Puna district, but outside of the current risk area. Although the lava eruption continues and is unpredictable, the financial impact to the bank, to date, has not been material.