Environment is important, but so is keeping energy costs down for Hawaii's poor who are already impacted by our regressive economic and tax climate. AES could have or still could upgrade their general plant and emissions scrubbing technology if HECO payed them a better rate per unit produced or invested in the outcomes. Instead, AES struggles to maintain their now dated plant and standards. Ultimately, HECO should acquire AES before or after the 2022 'decommissioning', make it a 'turnover', hire all the AES workers (not management) and upgrade the plant fuel feed, boilers, generators and scrubbers in phases. Biofuel is notoriously hard to efficiently burn and supplies on an island may be erratic. State of the art scrubbing tech could reduce the emissions considerably, to where the ratio of cost to environmental impact may be reasonable and acceptable. At least until 2030+ when solar farms and storage are all viable, affordable and in place.