Wind gusts likely cause of Hawai‘i Island power outage
Via Hawaii Electric: About 51,000 Hawai‘i Electric Light customers in various areas around the island experienced a power outage at about 10:45 a.m. today. Faults on two transmission lines along the Hamakua Coast disconnected independent power producer Hamakua Energy from the grid and caused a sudden loss of generation. Service to most customers was restored within 30 minutes and service to the remaining customers was restored by about 1:30 p.m. […]