Some Puna Residents Facing Outage into Next Week, Beyond

KITV says power was restored to a portion of Hawaiian Paradise Park Saturday

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Our media partner KITV has this report. Excerpts:

Hawaii Electric Light crews continue to work on restoring power as quickly as possible to customers who lost electricity as a result of Tropical Storm Iselle.

About 8,100 customers, approximately 10 percent of total Big Island customers, remained without power, mostly in the Puna District but also in smaller pockets on the east side of the island, according to HELCO.

Power was restored to a portion of Hawaiian Paradise Park late Saturday afternoon.

Crews have made significant progress repairing the main transmission lines that serve as the backbone of the island’s electric grid, making the overall system more stable.  Now, crews can focus their attention on restoring power to individual neighborhoods, according to HELCO. …

Customers who are still without power at this time should expect an extended outage into next week and, in some cases, much longer. …

KITV Puna report power out Aug. 11, 2014

KITV

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