Posted at 2:26 p.m., Wednesday, October 18, 2006
PUC to meet with Hawaiian Electric to discuss outage
Advertiser Staff
The state Public Utilities Commission will meet with Hawaiian Electric Co. officials tomorrow to discuss Sunday's blackout.At the 2 p.m. briefing, HECO officials will provide an update on the impact of the power failure and will discuss some of its potential causes.
Sunday's outage, triggered by twin earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.7 and 6.0, caused an estimated $74 million on the Big Island and left 291,000 O'ahu customers without power for hours.
