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"No more rolling outages tonight, power has been restored to all
customers on Hawaii Island," the Honolulu-based power company
said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The company had earlier said that its largest generator, Hamakua
Energy, unexpectedly tripped offline late Tuesday afternoon and
Puna Geothermal Venture was operating at a reduced capacity.
Hawaiian Electric added one of its combustion turbines had
tripped offline on Tuesday evening on the island, which contains
the towns of Hilo and Kona.
"Hill Plant Unit No. 5, Keahole CT-5, and Puna Steam Plant also
are unavailable due to planned annual maintenance or repairs.
Wind resources, which help meet demand at night, also are near
zero," the company said in a statement.
It had asked its customers to conserve energy from 5 p.m. to 9
p.m. HST on Tuesday (0300 to 0700 GMT on Wednesday).
Hawaiian Electric had said the timing and extent of the outages
would depend on the amount of demand on the system and the
availability of generators.
The company is separately facing multiple lawsuits claiming it
was to blame for a wildfire that tore through the island of Maui
last year, killing at least 100 people.
Hawaiian Electric said in November it was unable to submit its
quarterly filing with U.S. securities regulators on time due to
its expected contribution towards a fund to compensate victims
of the Maui fire.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur and Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru;
Editing by Janane Venkatraman, Jamie Freed and Shweta Agarwal)
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