Hawaiian Electric is urging Hawai‘i Island customers to continue to reduce their electricity use to prevent the need for rolling outages.

For the past several weeks, Hawaiian Electric has been asking residential and business customers to conserve electricity due to the unavailability of several large generators and cautioned that rolling outages might be needed if generation falls short of demand.

If necessary, brief outages will be initiated to prevent a loss of power to an even greater number of customers. Outages would rotate in various areas around the island and last for about 30 minutes. The areas and timing will be based on the amount of electric demand that needs to be reduced. Individuals who are dependent on electrically powered life support medical equipment are advised to arrange for a backup power supply.

Alerts and updates will be posted on the company’s social media platforms. Hawai‘i County Civil Defense also will send emergency alerts through local radio and its Everbridge emergency notification system.