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                                                                HEI Exhibit 99.2
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                               AMENDMENT 2002-1
                                    TO THE
             HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN

In accordance with Section 8.1 of the Hawaiian Electric Industries Retirement
Savings Plan (the "Plan") and resolutions of the Board of Directors of Hawaiian
Electric Industries, Inc. adopted January 22, 2002, the Plan is hereby amended
as follows:

1.       The Introduction is amended by adding the following new paragraph after
the first paragraph thereof:

         The portion of the Plan invested in the Company Stock Fund is
         designated as an employee stock ownership plan within the meaning of
         Section 4975 of the Code.

2.       Article II of the Plan is amended by adding the following new section
at the end thereof:

         Section 2.6  Contributions to ESOP Component and Non-ESOP Component
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         To the extent that contributions made pursuant to the foregoing
         sections are initially invested in the Company Stock Fund in accordance
         with the Participant investment directions in force at the time such
         contributions are made, such contributions shall be deemed made to the
         ESOP Component of the Plan. To the extent that contributions are
         initially invested in other investment options, such contributions
         shall be deemed made to the Non-ESOP Component.

3.       Section 3.1 of the Plan is amended and restated in its entirety to read
as follows :

         Section 3.1  Section 401(k) Nondiscrimination Rules
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                 (a)  ADP Tests. The nondiscriminatory amount test under Section
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         1.401(a)(4)-1(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations is met for the salary
         reduction portions of the Plan if the salary reduction portion of the
         ESOP Component and the salary reduction portion of the Non-ESOP
         Component each separately satisfies the actual deferral percentage
         ("ADP") test of Section 401(k)(3)(ii) of the Code. Contributions to the
         ESOP Component and Non-ESOP Component shall be determined in accordance
         with Section 2.6. Effective with the 1997 Plan Year, the Plan uses the
         prior-year ADP testing method, under which the ADP in the current year
         for the group of Eligible Employees who are HCEs is compared to the ADP
         in the previous year for the group of Eligible Employees who were NHCEs
         in the previous year. The comparative percentages must satisfy one of
         the following tests:

                      (1)  The ADP for the current Plan Year for the group of
         Eligible Employees who are HCEs is not more than the ADP in the
         previous Plan Year for the group of Eligible Employees who were NHCEs
         in the previous Plan Year multiplied by 1.25 [HCE ADP * (NHCE ADP x
         1.25)], or

[* Denotes less than or equal to]
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                      (2)  The excess of the ADP for the current Plan Year for
         the group of Eligible Employees who are HCEs is not more than two
         percentage points greater than the ADP in the previous Plan Year for
         the group of Eligible Employees who were NHCEs in the previous Plan
         Year, and the ADP for the current Plan Year for the group of Eligible
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         Employees who are HCEs is not more than twice the ADP in the previous
         Plan Year for the group of Eligible Employees who were NHCEs in the
         previous Plan Year [HCE ADP * (NHCE ADP + 2%)] and [HCE ADP * (NHCE ADP
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         x 2)].

                (b)   ADP Rules.
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                      (1)  The ADP for the ESOP Component or Non-ESOP Component,
         as the case may be, for a specified group of Eligible Employees for a
         Plan Year means the average of the ratios (calculated separately for
         each Eligible Employee in such group) of (i) the amount of the salary
         reduction contributions actually paid to the ESOP Component or Non-ESOP
         Component, as the case may be, on behalf of each such Eligible Employee
         for such Plan Year to (ii) such Eligible Employee's ADP Compensation
         for such Plan Year. The ADP of an Eligible Employee who is eligible to
         but does not elect to have salary reduction contributions made to the
         ESOP Component or Non-ESOP Component, as the case may be, on his or her
         behalf for a Plan Year shall be zero for that Component.

                      (2)  The ADP for each Eligible Employee shall be
         determined separately with respect to the ESOP Component and the
         Non-ESOP Component. Contributions to the ESOP Component (determined in
         accordance with Section 2.6) shall be taken into account only in
         determining the ADP for the ESOP Component, and contributions to the
         Non-ESOP Component (determined in accordance with Section 2.6) shall be
         taken into account only in determining the ADP for the Non-ESOP
         Component. Except as provided in the foregoing sentences, the ADP for
         any Eligible Employee who is an HCE for the Plan Year and who is
         eligible to have contributions allocated to his Account under two or
         more arrangements described in Section 401(k) of the Code that are
         maintained by a Participating Employer (other than the ESOP Component
         and Non-ESOP Component) shall be determined as if such contributions
         were made under a single arrangement.

                      (3)  In calculating the ADP for the group of NHCEs in the
         previous Plan Year, an Eligible Employee's status as an NHCE shall be
         determined using the definition of Highly Compensated Employee in
         effect for the previous Plan Year.

                      (4)  For the 2002 Plan Year, which is the first year in
         which the ESOP Component and Non-ESOP Component must be tested
         separately, the ADP for the group of NHCEs for the previous Plan Year
         for each Component shall be deemed to be equal to the ADP for NHCEs for
         the Plan as a whole for the 2001 Plan Year.

[* denotes less than or equal to]

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               The provisions of Section 401(k)(3) of the Code and Section
         1.401(k)-1(b) of the Treasury Regulations, as modified by the Small
         Business Job Protection Act of 1996, are incorporated in the Plan by
         this reference.

               (c)    Excess Contributions.  Effective with the 1997 Plan Year,
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         excess contributions are treated as follows:

                      (1)  If either or both the ESOP Component or the Non-ESOP
         Component of the Plan fails to satisfy either of the ADP tests for a
         Plan Year, the dollar amount of excess contributions for each affected
         HCE shall be calculated in a manner consistent with Section
         401(k)(8)(B) of the Code and Section 1.401(k)-l(f)(2) of the Treasury
         Regulations, which states that the amount of excess contributions for
         an HCE is the amount by which such HCE's elective contributions must be
         reduced for the HCE's actual deferral ratio to equal the highest
         permitted actual deferral ratio for the year.

                      (2)  The excess contributions determined in step (1) shall
         be totaled and then distributed in accordance with steps (3) and (4).

                      (3)  The elective contributions of the HCE with the
         highest dollar amount of elective contributions shall be reduced by the
         amount required to cause that HCE's elective contributions to equal the
         dollar amount of the elective contributions of the HCE with the next
         highest dollar amount of elective contributions. This amount shall then
         be distributed to the HCE with the highest dollar amount of elective
         contributions. However, if a lesser reduction, when added to the total
         dollar amount already distributed under this step, would equal the
         total excess contributions for the group, the lesser reduction amount
         shall be distributed.

                      (4)  If the amount distributed under the preceding
         paragraph is less than the total excess contributions, the steps in the
         preceding paragraph are repeated until the total excess contributions
         have been distributed. After the total excess contributions have been
         distributed, the ADP test is deemed to be satisfied, regardless of
         whether, if recalculated after the distributions, the ADP test would
         actually be satisfied.

                      (5)  Any excess contributions shall be distributed no
         later than the last day of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in
         which the excess contributions were made. To avoid the 10% excise tax
         under Section 4979 of the Code, the Administrative Committee may cause
         such distributions to be made within the first 2-1/2 months of such
         Plan Year.

                      (6)  The excess contribution to be so distributed shall be
         adjusted for income or loss, which shall be determined by multiplying
         the income or loss allocable to the HCE's Account in the ESOP Component
         or Non-ESOP Component (whichever is applicable) for such Plan Year (to
         the extent such HCE's Account balance is derived from salary reduction
         contributions and

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         earnings thereon) by a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount
         of the excess contribution on behalf of the HCE to that Component for
         that Plan Year and the denominator of which is the sum of the HCE's
         Account balance in that Component attributable to salary reduction
         contributions as of the beginning of the Plan Year plus the HCE's
         salary reduction contributions to that Component for the Plan Year. No
         adjustment shall be made for the gap period between the end of the Plan
         Year in which the excess contributions were made and the time when the
         excess contributions are distributed.

                      (7)  Excess contributions (if any) shall be determined
         separately for the ESOP Component and the Non-ESOP Component.

4.       Section 4.2 of the Plan is amended by redesignating subsections (b) and
         (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively, and adding the following
         new subsection (b) after subsection (a) thereof:

               (b)    ESOP Component and Non-ESOP Component. In addition to the
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         subaccounts maintained pursuant to the preceding subsection, the
         Trustee shall maintain an accounting of the ESOP Component and Non-ESOP
         Component of the Plan. At any particular time, the ESOP Component of
         the Plan shall consist of all Plan assets invested in the Company Stock
         Fund at that time, and the Non-ESOP Component shall consist of all
         other assets of the Plan at that time. Plan assets, including amounts
         from any of the subaccounts established pursuant to the preceding
         subsection, may move freely between the ESOP Component and Non-ESOP
         Component in accordance with Participants' investment elections under
         Section 4.3.

5.       Section 4.3(a) of the Plan is amended by replacing the words "a Company
stock fund that invests primarily in common stock of the Company" with "the
Company Stock Fund" in the first sentence thereof, and by adding the following
new sentence thereof:

         Amounts invested in the Company Stock Fund are part of the ESOP
         Component, and amounts invested in all other available investment
         options are part of the Non-ESOP Component.

6.       Section 4.3(d) of the Plan is amended by replacing the first paragraph
thereof with the following:

         (d)   Company Stock. Effective April 1, 1996, all shares of Company
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         Stock held by the Plan were placed in the Company Stock Fund. Following
         the establishment of the Company Stock Fund, Participants' Accounts
         invested in Company Stock were credited with units in the Company Stock
         Fund. The Plan assets held in the Company Stock Fund constitute the
         ESOP Component of the Plan. The Company Stock Fund is designated as,
         and is intended to constitute, an employee stock ownership plan within
         the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code.

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7.       Sections 4.3(d), 6.2, and 6.5 of the Plan are amended by replacing the
words "common stock of the Company" with "Company Stock" and the words "HEI
Common Stock Fund" with "Company Stock Fund" in each place where they occur.

8.       Section 6.2 of the Plan is amended by replacing the last paragraph
thereof with the following:

         All distributions shall be in the form of cash, except that a
         Participant's investment in the Company Stock Fund shall be converted
         to an equivalent number of shares of Company Stock. The normal form of
         distribution for investments held in the Company Stock Fund shall be
         such Company Stock. A Participant may also elect to receive any such
         distribution from the Company Stock Fund in cash in lieu of Company
         Stock. The value of any fractional share equivalent shall be paid in
         cash. A Participant may determine the portion of his or her Account
         balance that will be distributable in Company Stock by directing the
         investment of such portion in the Company Stock Fund before a
         distribution is made.


9.       Section 10.1 of the Plan is amended by adding the words "(including
both the ESOP Component and the Non-ESOP Component") after the word "Plan" in
the first sentence thereof.

10.      Article X of the Plan is amended by adding the following new
definitions, to be appropriately numbered:

         Company Stock means common stock of the Company.
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         Company Stock Fund means a fund established pursuant to the Trust
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         Agreement that consists of Company Stock and a small percentage of cash
         or cash equivalents. All Company Stock held by the Plan is held in the
         Company Stock Fund.

         ESOP Component means the portion of the Plan that is invested in the
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         Company Stock Fund and is designated as an employee stock ownership
         plan within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code.

         Non-ESOP Component means the portion of the Plan that is not invested
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         in the Company Stock Fund.

11.      Article XII of the Plan is redesignated Article XIII, and the following
new Article is inserted after Article XI:

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                                  ARTICLE XII
                                ESOP PROVISIONS
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         Section 12.1 Purpose and Designation of ESOP Component
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                 The ESOP Component of the Plan is designated as, and is
         intended to constitute, an employee stock ownership plan within the
         meaning of Section 4975 of the Code. The ESOP Component is designed to
         invest primarily in Company Stock. The Plan shall be interpreted
         consistently with the designation and intent stated in this Section.

         Section 12.2 Assets of ESOP Component
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                 The assets of the ESOP Component shall consist of all Plan
         assets held in the Company Stock Fund. Amounts contributed to the Plan
         from any source (including elective contributions and HEIDI
         contributions) shall become assets of the ESOP Component to the extent
         that such amounts are invested in the Company Stock Fund pursuant to
         Participant investment elections under Section 4.3 of the Plan. Amounts
         transferred to the Company Stock Fund from other investment
         alternatives in accordance with Participant investment elections shall
         become part of the ESOP Component, and amounts transferred from the
         Company Stock Fund to other investment alternatives shall cease to be
         part of the ESOP Component and become part of the Non-ESOP Component.

         Section 12.3 Participant Voting Rights
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                 Participants in the ESOP Component shall have the right to
         vote shares of Company Stock as provided in Section 4.3.

         Section 12.4 Right to Demand Company Stock
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                 Participants in the ESOP Component shall have the right to
         demand that benefits be distributed in the form of Company Stock as
         provided in Section 6.2.

         Section 12.5 Commencement of Distributions
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                 Participants in the ESOP Component shall have the right to
         commence distributions as provided in Section 6.1.

         Section 12.6 Election to Receive or Reinvest Dividends
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                 Dividends on Company Stock held in the ESOP Component shall be
         paid to the Trustee and allocated among Participants in accordance with
         their account balances in the ESOP Component. Each Participant's
         allocable share of each such dividend payment shall, at the election of
         such Participant, be either (i) paid to such Participant in cash, or
         (ii) reinvested in the Company Stock Fund for the benefit of such
         Participant and held as part of such Participant's Account. Such
         Participant elections and cash payments shall be made in accordance
         with

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         procedures established by the Administrative Committee. The
         Administrative Committee may establish reasonable restrictions on the
         right to receive dividends in cash, including a reasonable minimum
         amount for such distributions and a reasonable deadline prior to each
         dividend distribution for the making of such elections. If a
         Participant does not affirmatively elect to receive a dividend in cash,
         he or she shall be deemed to have elected reinvestment of such
         dividend.

         Section 12.6 Diversification
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                 Nothing in this Article XII or other Plan provision relating
         to the ESOP Component shall limit the right of any Participant to
         direct the investment of his or her Account balance as provided in
         Section 4.3, including the right of such Participant to direct the
         transfer of all or any portion of his or her Account balance from the
         Company Stock Fund to any other available investment alternative at any
         time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Participant investment directions
         may be suspended or limited to the extent reasonably necessary for Plan
         administrative purposes (including, without limitation, any change of
         Trustee or other service provider) or as may be required by applicable
         securities laws.

12.      The foregoing amendments shall be effective January 1, 2002.

TO RECORD the adoption of these amendments to the Plan, the Hawaiian Electric
Industries, Inc. Pension Investment Committee has caused this document to be
executed this 28 day of February, 2002.


                                       HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, INC.
                                       PENSION INVESTMENT COMMITTEE



                                       By /s/ Robert F. Clarke
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                                               Its member



                                       By /s/ Robert F. Mougeot
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                                               Its member

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