Power failures used to stabilize system as generator balks
Problems with a generating station in Campbell Industrial Park caused instability in Hawaiian Electric Co.’s grid Monday, resulting in power failures in Leeward and Windward Oahu.
Outages started midmorning, and power was fully restored by 12:30 p.m.
HECO said the station at Campbell Industrial Park is owned by AES, an independent company that sells power to HECO, and is the single largest generating unit in the system. The generating station at the industrial park went offline at about 9:50 a.m., triggering instability in the system.
To restabilize the grid and prevent a potentially bigger, islandwide failure, HECO said, power was disconnected to several neighborhoods, affecting 65,000 customers.
Affected neighborhoods included Ewa, Mililani, Wahiawa, Waipahu, Kalihi, Pacific Palisades, Kailua, Kaneohe and Waihee.
Man held in attack pleads not guilty to pair of charges
A 21-year-old Makaha man Monday denied stabbing an employee of Waianae Hardware Store and entered a plea in Circuit Court of not guilty to attempted assault and robbery charges.
Chad Teisina III, also known as Chad Tisina, is being held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center on charges of first-degree attempted assault and first-degree robbery in the stabbing of the employee and son of the store’s owner May 28.
He entered his plea from OCCC using the court’s closed video system because he is unable to post bail of $100,000.
His trial is scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 11 before Circuit Judge Randal Lee.
