b"The top executive of Hawaiian Electric Industries received a $1.7 million pay raise in 2024, despite the company's role in the 2023 Maui wildrethe deadliest in the U.S. in over a centuryand a year marked by nancial losses and legal settlements surpassing $1.9 billion.Scott Seu, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric (HEI), saw his total compensation climb to $3.2 million last year according to a regulatory ling. His base pay was boosted by the company's board, which argued that successfully steering the utility away from bankruptcy justied the raise.Shelee Kimura, president and chief executive of HEIs utility subsidiary, Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc., had a pay jump from $859,000 in 2023 to $1.5 million last year.Federal investigators found Hawaiian Electric's equipment was responsible for the ignition of the August 2023 Lahaina blaze, which killed 102 people and destroyed approximately 2,200 buildings in the historic Maui town.19"