#Scheduled Maintenance
Lane closure scheduled on Kīlauea Avenue in Hilo for utility pole replacement
Hawaiian Electric will replace two power poles on Kīlauea Avenue near Aupuni Street in downtown Hilo, resulting in lane closures.
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.
