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Downtown Honolulu electric grid upgrade will be long, disruptive

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Hawaiian Electric said upgrade work in downtown Honolulu had begun during the prior decade with about 25% of the project completed before the coronavirus pandemic. Above, HECO vehicles lined the side of Bethel Street as HPD directed traffic at left during a power outage in Chinatown June 18.

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM

Hawaiian Electric said upgrade work in downtown Honolulu had begun during the prior decade with about 25% of the project completed before the coronavirus pandemic. Above, HECO vehicles lined the side of Bethel Street as HPD directed traffic at left during a power outage in Chinatown June 18.