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Credit agreements and long-term debt | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Credit agreements and long-term debt | Credit agreements and long-term debt Credit agreements. HEI and Hawaiian Electric each entered into a separate agreement with a syndicate of eight financial institutions (the HEI Facility and Hawaiian Electric Facility, respectively, and together, the Facilities), effective July 3, 2017, to amend and restate their respective previously existing revolving unsecured credit agreements. The $150 million HEI Facility extended the term of the facility to June 30, 2022. In March 2018, the PUC approved Hawaiian Electric’s request to extend the term of the $200 million Hawaiian Electric Facility to June 30, 2022. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, no amounts were outstanding under the Facilities. The Facilities will be maintained to support each company’s respective short-term commercial paper program, but may be drawn on to meet each company’s respective working capital needs and general corporate purposes. Changes in long-term debt. On May 30, 2018, the Utilities issued, through a private placement pursuant to separate Note Purchase Agreements (the Note Purchase Agreements), the following unsecured notes bearing taxable interest (the Notes):
| Series 2018A | Series 2018B | Series 2018C
Aggregate principal amount | $67.5 million | $17.5 million | $15 million
Fixed coupon interest rate | 4.38% | 4.53% | 4.72%
Maturity date | May 30, 2028 | March 30, 2033 | May 30, 2048
Principal amount by company: |  |  |
Hawaiian Electric | $52 million | $12.5 million | $10.5 million
Hawaii Electric Light | $9 million | $3 million | $3 million
Maui Electric | $6.5 million | $2 million | $1.5 million
The Notes include substantially the same financial covenants and customary conditions as Hawaiian Electric’s credit agreement. Hawaiian Electric is also a party as guarantor under the Note Purchase Agreements entered into by Hawaii Electric Light and Maui Electric. All the proceeds of the Notes were used by Hawaiian Electric, Hawaii Electric Light and Maui Electric to finance their capital expenditures and/or to reimburse funds used for the payment of capital expenditures. The Notes may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time at the prepayment price of the principal amount plus a “Make-Whole Amount,” as defined in the Note Purchase Agreements. In June 2018, Mauo, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Pacific Current, LLC, entered into an unsecured $50.5 million construction loan facility in connection with the construction of the solar-plus-storage PPA project. The loan bears interest at LIBOR plus 1.375% and matures in March 2021. As of June 30, 2018, no amounts were outstanding under the facility. The loan is guaranteed by HEI.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for information about short-term and long-term debt arrangements, which includes amounts of borrowings under each line of credit, note payable, commercial paper issue, bonds indenture, debenture issue, own-share lending arrangements and any other contractual agreement to repay funds, and about the underlying arrangements, rationale for a classification as long-term, including repayment terms, interest rates, collateral provided, restrictions on use of assets and activities, whether or not in compliance with debt covenants, and other matters important to users of the financial statements, such as the effects of refinancing and noncompliance with debt covenants. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 470 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2208564 + Details
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