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Hawaiian Electric Industries

hawaiianelectric.com · Energy · HE

Ranked 3 of 2,047 companies in the study

53Overall score
  • Visibility68
  • Citations28
  • Sentiment50
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness14
What this means for Hawaiian Electric Industries

AI assistants name Hawaiian Electric Industries in 66.7% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in the energy sector. Its overall score is 53 out of 100, placing it 3rd of 2,047 companies, and first in its sector. The company's website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named Hawaiian Electric Industries. AI assistants named it in 40 of 60 answers (66.7%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Hawaiian Electric Industries ranks 1 of 109 in its sector.

Named by AI in
66.7%
40 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
69.0%
compared with 4 rivals
AI readiness
2/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 3
Rank in its sector
1 of 109
by overall score, where the typical energy company scores 29
How Hawaiian Electric Industries compares with all 2,047 companies

Every dot is a company in the study. Hover one to see it; click to open its report.

This companySame sectorEvery other companyNever named

What makes up the score

Five parts, each scored out of 100.

Visibility
68

How often AI assistants name the company

Citations
28

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
50

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
14

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Compared with energy

109 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score53
Ranks 1 of 109. Typical company: 29
Named in answers67%
Ranks 1 of 109. Typical company: 3%
AI readiness14
Ranks 85 of 109. Typical company: 21
What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

“How are residential electricity rates calculated in Hawaii?”

Based on the search results, here's how residential electricity rates are calculated in Hawaii:

Basic Calculation Method

The average residential electricity price is calculated by dividing total residential revenues collected by the utility by the number of kilowatt-hours sold to residential customers.

Rate-Setting Process

Hawaiian Electric is an investor-owned utility, so its residential rates are set through rate cases reviewed by Hawaii's utility commission. Hawaii adopted Performance-Based Regulation (PBR) in 2020, which was designed to tie utility revenues to clean energy goals …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

Also named
Hawaiian Electric45
Share of mentions

How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals

Hawaiian Electric Industries
75.5%
Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC)
24.5%
PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)
0.0%
Southern California Edison
0.0%
Seattle City Light
0.0%
Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
13/15
Claude
10/15
Perplexity
10/15
OpenAI
7/15
Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 0: Not yet agent-ready. Agents struggle to find basic information about the site.

To reach level 1:
  • 2 of robots.txt, Sitemap, Link headers
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
41 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 92.0%
  • SitemapNot met

    Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.

    study: 86.8%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 0.3%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 5.5%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 1.9%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 25.1%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 93.4%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 1.4%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.2%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 0.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 11.8%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 10.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.0%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.2%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.1%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 0.2%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 33.7%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.1%

Score 16 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.hawaiianelectric.com · 2,047 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

The checks behind the AI readiness score

2 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks
Discoverability
  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
  • Not metXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
Content Accessibility
  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
Bot Access Control
  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
API / Auth / MCP
  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI
  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly
AI search
  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly
Answering questions
  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

hawaiianelectric.com (its own website)
156
puc.hawaii.gov
29
electricchoice.com
23
cca.hawaii.gov
17
alternateenergyhawaii.com
16
energy.hawaii.gov
15
uhero.hawaii.edu
12
files.hawaii.gov
9
chooseenergy.com
8
health.hawaii.gov
7

In the study as US-listed.

Every question, and where the company came up (15 of 15)
QuestionOpenAIClaudePerplexityGemini
  • How are residential electricity rates calculated in Hawaii?
  • Solar energy vs traditional grid electricity for residential customers in Hawaii
  • Alternatives to standard grid electricity for remote areas in Hawaii
  • Best ways to find reliable electric utility providers for homes in Hawaii
  • How to choose the right electricity plan for a small business in Hawaii
  • What to do if your electricity bill suddenly spikes in Hawaii
  • How do time-of-use electricity rates compare to flat rates in Hawaii?
  • Steps to take during a power outage in the Hawaiian islands
  • Is switching to a renewable energy plan in Hawaii worth the extra cost?
  • Best electricity plans for large families in Hawaii
  • What are cost-effective alternatives to traditional electric utility service in Hawaii?
  • Options for off-grid electricity solutions in Hawaii
  • Are premium power quality services necessary for commercial operations in Hawaii?
  • What factors influence commercial electricity prices in Hawaii?
  • Options for setting up new electric service when moving to a different island in Hawaii
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.

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