Power slowly being restored to Molokai after island-wide outage

MOLOKAI, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) -Most on Molokai were without electricity for much of the day Tuesday.

Power has been restored to most of the island’s roughly 3,250 customers by around 3 p.m.

There were however pockets of customers in the Kualapuu area without power into the night — about 280 of them.

The island-wide outage reportedly began around 11 a.m. when a generator at the Palaau Power Plant tripped. It’s not known what caused the unit to go offline.

Crews were continuing to fully restore power as quickly as possible.

Power slowly being restored to Molokai after island-wide outage

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