Get those brooms ready, Honolulu, to sweep the sand off the red carpet: It’s time for “Hawaii Five-0,” Season Two.
As it was with the highly anticipated series launch a year ago, this new season will debut with a gala premiere on the big Sunset on the Beach screen in Waikiki, across from the zoo. Saturday’s hoopla is expected to begin after 4:30 p.m., and the stars are expected out in full force.
Joining Alex “McGarrett” O’Loughlin & Crew this season will be Terry O’Quinn (Emmy Award winner for “Lost”) playing McGarrett’s Navy SEAL mentor, and Richard T. Jones as the new acting governor.
It promises to be quite a year. Be there. Aloha.
‘I got sunshine, on a cloudy day’
Nothing happens very quickly in either the world of business — where, more than ever, caution is the watchword — or, most certainly, in the federal government. Still, it’s good to see that a federal study is finally out with the good news.
Hawaiian Electric Co. has limited the number customers connecting their solar generators to its circuits, essentially becoming small-scale producers selling power to the utility. The problem, HECO has said, is that solar generation is unsteady, and electrical grids need some certainty of supply if it is to meet demand.
But the National Renewable Energy Laboratory now believes cloudy days may not create such radical fluctuations.
What do you say, HECO? Not that anyone expects you to turn on a dime, but more customers would love to save dimes, or dollars, now and then.