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To enhance resilience, Hawaiian Electric in 2025 has replaced thousands of utility poles, trimmed vegetation, overhauled underground equipment and installed technology to reduce wildfire and outage risks across the five islands it serves.
Lightning strikes caused dozens out outages today across Oahu. Crews restored about 5,000 customers throughout the day; about 32,000 were without service as of 9 p.m., the majority in West Oahu.
Hawaiian Electric is beginning the process to seek proposals of a large-scale renewable energy project for the island of Lanai to reduce the use of imported fossil fuels, cut carbon emissions and stabilize rates.
As part of its ongoing efforts to reduce wildfire risks, Hawaiian Electric will begin its first targeted area of critical pole hardening in Lahaina along Honoapiilani Highway this month.
In support of families and communities in need across its five-island service areas, Hawaiian Electric employees and the IBEW Local 1260 together raised more than $330,000 for Aloha United Way, Hawaii Island United Way and local food banks during a workplace campaign in 2025.
Hawaiian Electric crews recently completed repairs to a key 138 kilovolt (kV) transmission line that carries electricity from Leeward Oahu to Windward Oahu, Waimanalo and East Honolulu.
On Earth Day, as oil prices are spiking, Hawaiian Electric urges customers to assess their energy use and find ways to reduce overall electricity demand.
Hawaiian Electric has received the 2026 Bronze Emergency Management Award from Chartwell Inc., a leading provider of utility industry research focused on customer-facing issues, which recognized the utility for modernizing its emergency communications in support of its Public Safety Power Shutoff program.
As part of its ongoing wildfire safety strategy, Hawaiian Electric will begin this month using unmanned aircrafts, or drones, for aerial inspections of its electrical infrastructure in identified wildfire risk areas throughout Molokai. Inspections will continue through May 2026.
As part of its ongoing wildfire safety strategy, Hawaiian Electric is using unmanned aircrafts, or drones, for aerial inspections of its electrical infrastructure in identified wildfire risk areas on Hawaii Island, Maui County and Oahu. The drones play a critical role in the inspection process and the technology enables Hawaiian Electric to more quickly identify issues to prevent or lessen the risk of wildfires.
With the severe weather including thunderstorms and flash flooding forecast to arrive later in the week, Hawaiian Electric is proactively preparing to respond as it monitors developing weather conditions.
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