Power restored for thousands of Windward Oahu customers
COURTESY HECO
This graphic shows the impact of the outage shortly after it began.
Hawaiian Electric Co. has restored power to all Windward Oahu customers who were affected by a power outage Thursday that briefly left about 8,000 customers in the dark.
A HECO spokeswoman said in an update at about 9:20 p.m. that power was restored to all customers. The electric company had restored power to all but 40 customers by about 4 p.m.
In addition, all lanes were open on Kamehameha Highway near Malaekahana Beach park where repair crews were working on the makai side of the highway, the spokeswoman said.
The outage started about 2:10 p.m. and affected residents in Kahuku, Kaaawa, and Kahuluu.
HECO restored power to about 5,000 customers by 2:30 p.m.
HECO said the cause of the outage is under investigation.
230p Kahuku/Kaaawa/Kahaluu update: Power restored to some customers. Crews continue to work to safely to restore power to remaining ~3000 customers. Mahalo for your patience. #OahuOutage
— Hawaiian Electric (@HwnElectric) October 11, 2019
210p: ~8000 customers without power in the Kahuku/Kaaawa/Kahaluu area. 1st responder en route. Mahalo for your patience. #OahuOutage
— Hawaiian Electric (@HwnElectric) October 11, 2019
