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To: Eric who wrote (1432704)	1/11/2024 3:06:41 PM
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"cloudy skies deprived the island of the solar energy it has increasingly come to rely on in recent years. That caused key battery facilities in Kapolei and Waiawa, which combined can store nearly 1,000 megawatt hours of power, to run well short of their storage capacity during the storm, Pai said. Those factors prompted Hawaiian Electric to publicly announce Monday that, for the first time in almost exactly nine years, rolling blackouts might have to occur on Oahu starting at 5:30 p.m. Customers responded by reducing their power use, ensuring that the blackouts didn’t need to start at that time, Pai said. Instead, they started at 8 p.m. after the storms caused more of the island’s power sources to drop off at the H-Power waste-to-energy plant in West Oahu and at windfarms on the North Shore. How exactly the storms affected H-Power are still being investigated, Pai added. The 30-minute rolling blackouts, which covered most of the island, raised renewed concerns by some residents over state leaders’ decision to close Oahu’s last remaining coal-fired plant in 2022 even though Hawaiian Electric had failed to bring online all the renewable projects needed to replace it." civilbeat.org