#Scheduled Maintenance
West Hawai‘i residents could experience temporary 9-1-1 outage
Hawai‘i Police Department announced Wednesday that Hawaiian Telcom will be conducting scheduled maintenance work starting at 11:59 p.m. tonight, which could lead to up to 60-minute outage.
Hawaiian Electric has run into power shortfalls and weather was not the culprit
During the past seven months, Hawaiian Electric has asked its Big Island customers nine times — sometimes for several days in a row — to reduce their electricity consumption during peak use hours in the evening, and the cause of the power problems was not the usual culprit: severe weather.
