Businesses and residents impacted by prolonged power outages

and they wanna get rid of coal?

Need to bring down the HECO monopoly and allow for fair market competition

This is intentional. Prove me wrong. This is your new normal Hawaii.

Buy backup battery systems for refrigerators!

I had no (meaningful) notice. I got nothing as far as I know. Wtheck

Why so many blackout ever since Maui fires? Just another excuse to raise our rates and an excuse to say we need to upgrade the power plant

Maybe solar panels and batteries? Is it that hard to figure out?

More bad mojo for HECO. They're too lazy to even do their own work and will make the customers and contractors pay for it.

Hawaiian Electric Industries' CEO is Scott W. Seu, appointed in Jan 2022, has a tenure of 2.25 years. total yearly compensation is $6.42M, comprised of 14.9% salary and 85.1% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.055% of the company's shares, worth $671.27K.

Did anyone have enough solar electricity in their battery to last the blackout? I know Sunday was all overcast so must have been just a trickle of solar charge.

The reason is there are more people consuming more energy than ever before. The power infrastructure wasn’t designed to handle that load. It takes time to upgrade all the transmission lines, substations, and add capacity to the grid. It is also very expensive. Labor is expensive, logistics to ship all the components and parts is really expensive. The rolling blackouts is to prevent the collapse of entire system. If a collapse happens, it can take months to fix. It’s better to have short, but manageable blackouts instead of a disaster. Hawaii Kai residents should have invested in off grid PV. This means the power does not go back into the grid for energy credits. Instead it is stored on batteries for use to reduce or eliminate using grid energy. These systems can switch back to grid power when needed if battery is depleted. They can afford systems that can power their homes for an entire day off battery (minus AC usage). Hawaii is mostly sunny, especially during summer months. The battery will be topped off and even if it was cloudy a few days, the battery can still provide hours of backup power. It’s the future. The ones who make the switch will be energy secure, while the rest will live like it’s 1899. 🤭

Another place in the U.S. sliding backwards into 3rd world living conditions. It's not just California and Hawaii either with less reliable power and rolling blackouts. It's happening across the U.S. as utilities reduce their safety margins along with overly rely on intermittent power sources.