Aloha, Electricity

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Hello and goodbye;

On January 8, 2024, a confluence of factors forced the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to initiate rolling blackouts that affected about 120,000 electricity customers in two dozen communities on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

The blackouts, which lasted from about 7:50 pm until 10:30 pm, were caused by a multitude of factors that we can put into two main categories: the immediate factors that caused blackouts and the long-term factors that made Oahu’s electric grid more vulnerable to blackouts in the first place.

Long story short, the state’s so-called “energy transition” set up the dominos for the power outages, ushering in the first rolling blackouts of 2024.[…]

28 Replies to “Aloha, Electricity”

    1. All that means is that they didn’t do anything after the last major blackout, because they are still convinced that GoreBull warming will save them and will also be mitigated by their actions…

    2. If they can keep the wells flowing, in a frozen northern winter, they can do it just about anywhere! (Methanol drip)

      The big difference with Hawaiian blackouts, especially in winter, is that no one is going to die of exposure, like they would here..

  3. Aloha LOTS more solar, batteries, and wind factories.

    Hello “renewable” energy …
    Goodbye pristine Hawaiian vistas, vegetation, and tourism
    Goodbye affordable energy

  4. More intentional destruction of the energy grid, dressed up as “green energy”/“saving the planet” – benefiting China short term via their virtual monopoly of solar panel and battery manufacturing, and long term via it’s deleterious impact to all segments of our economy. The politicians responsible for this insanity are probably on one or all of the Soros, DNC, or CCP payrolls.

  6. We are in Waikiki and experienced it. It was a winter storm here, but it wasn’t extraordinary, just wind and rain.
    Oil is still the primary source of electrical energy, but 2 of their generation units, coincidentally, broke down that day.
    Also, the power authority stated the batteries didn’t get charged that day, from solar and wind………because of inclement weather! Well good gracious, didn’t the brainiacs and planners realize that before they were ever built?
    At least no one will freeze to death here, great place for the homeless. Maybe we should ship ours here….
    Anyways, Hawaiian infrastructure is OLD, and the locals don’t GAF.

    1. 1. Congrats on being in Waikiki … your timing with the “Polar Vortex” hitting N.America is impeccable
      2. The battery storage was wiped out in 3-hours!!? A follow up to that should be a reminder of what that massively inadequate battery array $cost, including maintenance … and just how often has it been used? My guess? Once. For those 3-hours.

      1. And note, the locals pay for it, but they get the government they deserve here. Costs tripled, moving off coal to oil.
        Hawaiians dont seem very smart, by the way. Between the way their governments act, and interactions with locals, I’m not impressed. They don’t seem to GAF about anything.
        I dont GAF either, I’m just here for warm weather. It’s not cheap here for sure but we weather that storm….

    1. Maybe, but its deep, deep underground.

      The volcanism in the Hawaiian Islands goes from extinct at Oahu, past dormant in Maui, to active on Big Island (i.e, Hawaii).

    2. And upset Pele !!!????

      Build a geothermal plant to TAKE from Pele !!!??? … then you’d better start tossing virgins into the volcano to GIVE back to Pele, eh?

      The Hawaiians are very spiritual people. Don’t mess with their gods.

  9. Hawaiians get the results they vote for. The state has been Democrat since it was entered the Union (excepting 1972 when George McGovern was too lame even for Hawaii). If there is no competing political view then Hawaii gets what it desires and deserves. If they want a non-functioning electrical system, well, that’s what they get.

      1. Then they can go back to the Neolithic where they were when contacted by James Cook in 1778. King Kamehameha wanted advanced technology because that allowed the technical supremacy to conquer and unify the Hawaiian Islands. Are we to believe that Hawaiians are condemning their own past?

  11. I’ve hiked past the ugly and useless turbines on Maui. If there is any so called “climate justice”, every person who approved them (and “of” them) would be strapped to the fins until they broke.

    1. There was no decommissioning requirement on them, just as there was no decommissoning requirement on all of the early turbines built in the 1980s. So when they were starting to fall apart, the owners simply stripped out the salvageable metal components and abandoned the rest of the garbage in place. This was the norm for the renewables industry; unlike nuclear, hydraulic, coal, oil or gas-fired, the renewable solar and wind could be simply abandoned where they were.

  12. Hawaii is renowned for ALWAYS voting Democrat for state and federal elections. It wouldn’t be too big a stretch to surmise that they also vote for people who lean way to the left for their municipal elections. Fµck you, Hawaii. You reap what you sow, motherfµckers. Maybe the smart ones will survive. Can you eat your stupid leis?

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