power out HPP.

[kalakoa]

so we can all just burn more oil

Drilling holes is desecration, but fire is holy, especially when imported (with more fire).

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Drilling holes is desecration

Once upon a time there was a Big Island.

A little girl who lived on the island decided to walk around and explore it's wonders.
She strolled into an area with towers and wires and geothermal wells. She looked down into a hole and thought to herself, "this hole is too deep."

She hiked up the highest mountain and found an area where scientists wanted to build a new telescope. "This observatory will be too high" she said.

Then she walked home, took a long hot, hot, hot shower, turned on her 60" TV with surround sound, and put on all the lights as bright as could be. As her Netflix movie queued up to stream, all the power went out in an instant. "If only we had more imported oil burning tonight," she wailed, "everything would be just right."

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard

[pahoated]

One generator was down and needs major repairs, another went down suddenly, the winds changed direction and it was being reported the wind farms stopped producing output. The Puna oil plant in mothballs has been restarted.

In these pre-peak years, there is the opportunity to convert over to alternative energies. This is in face of the economics where oil electricity will be competitive with hydroelectric, making wind and solar much more expensive. At this point, it benefits HELCO to bring the Puna oil plant back full time. That thing produces huge amounts of SO2. It helps HELCO a lot to maintain the status quo if the Nextera is retracted, which sounds like any day, they don't have to deal with higher cost power producers like solar, plus they are paying out a lot less for oil. Might be a lot of employment fluctutations.

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"