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Rolling Outages

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energy-outages1 year ago

"Hawaiian Electric Resolves Emergency Outages Across Islands"

Hawaiian Electric initiated rolling outages on Hawai‘i Island due to a generation shortfall, affecting about 25,500 customers, but has since lifted the request to conserve electricity and restored power to all affected customers. The outages were caused by two turbine units going offline, resulting in the need to shed load and force power outages around the island. The utility is addressing the issues and responding to outages, with the impacted areas and timing of outages based on electric demand.

weather2 years ago

"Severe Weather Causes Rolling Outages and Flooding Across Hawaiian Islands"

A low pressure system with an attached cold front brought heavy rain to Oahu, causing road closures, power outages, and the expectation of rolling outages across the island due to a shortage of reserve generation capacity. HECO reported thousands of customers without power and asked residents and businesses to conserve power during peak electricity use times. The Department of Emergency Management was partially activated as flooding and landslides were expected.