Oh, this is just their path leading to their "green" energy plan. Lahaina is the starting point of experimentation. They know exactly what they are doing. These outages are by design.
Our infrastructure has been horrible for a long time now ..band aid patches on everything from electric too water ..who owns Hawaiian electric,Hawaiian lights and maybe board of water supply ..and they no more money coming on now Black rock ..
Hawaiian Electric is evil. As soon as the power issues started happening in Chinatown they shut off our power even though we were paying the minimum and it wasn’t even time for us to pay the minimum amount on our account again. Now we are getting public assistance to help pay for the bill and all of a sudden they added $1000 worth of additional fees to our account right after we were approved for assistance. Their monopoly is leading to shady business practices.
We'll actually, they hardly spent a dime, They put that burden separate from their own finances, on all customers via the Goldman-Sachs administered "GEMS" fee decades ago (which we all still pay into every bill.). This was their original scheme to have the customer pay entirely for their compliance to govt mandates. Very few utilized the program thus, private generation by customers was deemed too low and the rebate given to customer installations was was ended. Shortly after solar pricing lowered and adoption started picking up. This is when HECO became worried about the power of solar in the customers hands (which they forced on them), as many under the "net metering" program could reach negative bills with frugality. HECO quickly ended new net metering contract acceptance, and fear mongered that net metering was being abused and the grid could not handle the load generation. They used this excuse to sharply reject the number of new arrays to connect to the grid. Fast forward, they need to reach their mandates, so now they dole out the GEMS funds to bare minimum solar farm generation contractors. No grid hardening, no batteries, just a whole lotta generation for their shell companies to make more off us. Same playbook as the state legislature with their ballooned unspent general fund. Pinch every penny, put the burden on the people, and fatten their salaries and pensions.
Highest rates in the nation and can’t provide consistent power to 1m people. Our population is only a fraction of other cities. HECO totally mismanaged
He didn't sound confident about supply not being a problem. Where are they tying into for the dumb rail work on Dillingham? It's not far away from downtown.
Smart meter implementation cost the Electric utility millions in software, networking and meter installation. Meters must be replaced often because of battery issues. Network routing from meter to com center, software and technicians being spent on smart grid. Add Green Energy which costs up to 10 times to implement. Grid ignored, band aid fixes a nation wide practice.
That whole area is infested with large river rats 🐀 which could be eating the wires! Just pass by on the Nimitz road near River Street and blocks diamond head from there and see the spectacle of large rats eating the leftover food trash left overnight by the businesses there!
