#Pukalani power outage

Hawaiian Electric continues to investigate the cause of an outage early Wednesday morning that knocked out power to an estimated 2,500 customers. The outage was reported at 2:15 a.m. on May 8. “While the exact cause is still being determined, inspections identified an archery arrow caught in a line and trees making contact with a section of powerlines in the area,” a spokesperson said.

Update: (10:20 a.m., May 8, 2024) Hawaiian Electric reports power has been restored to customers on Loha St., parts of Haleakalā Highway and Kualono. Crews have completed most of the line inspection, and are continuing to restore customers in sections. An estimated 2,518 customers were impacted by the outage, which occurred at 2:10 a.m.

Hawaiian Electric crews are currently working on repairs to damaged electrical equipment to restore a remaining 350 customers from Peʻahi to Nāhiku on Maui. Approximately 6,900 customers from the Pukalani to Hāna area experienced the outage starting around 6:40 a.m. 

An estimated 2,000 customers lost power in Pukalani this morning when a bird came into contact with power lines on the Haleakala Highway, that according to Maui Electric Company spokesperson Kau’i Awai-Dickson.

(Story by Wendy OSHER © 2009) A period of heavy rains and thunderstorms, stuck to isolated areas of Maui yesterday afternoon.  While sunny skies were seen in Kahului, downpours were reported in the Upcountry and Maalaea areas.   At around 4 p.m. crews from Maui Electric Company were dispatched to troubleshoot a power outage in Pukalani; […]