JOE:
AN ISLANDWIDE BLACKOUT TRIGGERED
AN
THAT WAS TEN YEARS .. AND TENS
OF MILLIONS OF
WE FOUND OUT
UNDERWAY AFTER TWO POWER OUTAGES
IN TWO YEARS
NOW THAT PLANT CAN'T QUITE KICK
INTO HIGH
COSTLY CHANGE ORDERS. WE WANTED
TO KNOW
WHY THIS KEEPS ON HAPPENING TO
D.O.T.
PROJECTS, CAN AND WILL ANYTHING
CHANGE?
When oahu went dark after the
October 2006 earthquake,
A lesson was learned.the airport
was going to need a
during the 2008 christmas travel
hustle when the airport
delayed flights, kept incoming
passengers on planes, barely
humming with fractional power
from an old backup generator
megawatt standalone
generation project - about 8
times the old generator
01;45;14;33 the main function of
yet to work just right and
remains stuck in a testing
testing testing loop. One test
brought most of the airport to a
screeching halt when
reason why finding a testing
period and making sure that
we don't disrupt the operations
to the airport is
be revolutionary -
four large generators in a
concrete tower powered by
automatically without the
airport missing a beat. But the
state kept changing its mind
about what exactly it needed
built, the contractor got paid
for wait-around time,
HECO told me it is at least
"connected to the grid and
project but HECO's going to run
it for us and cause of that
we have to make sure all the
specifications HECO requires
are being met, all the testing
HECO requires are being met,
$23 million and years of delay.
SEN. DONNA KIM
decisions, poor decisions
being made. they're gambling not
with their money but with
a project, delayed, over budget,
sometimes busted as
is the case in some of the more
problematic projects?
the time we're ready to get into
construction and we're
ready to get into testing the
needs have changed,
DOT's director, many lawmakers
and airport
press conference during
legislative session declaring
to be in their best interest
the airport authority bill
01;17;06;55 we built this
airport without an authority.
where we're at 21
going ahead and getting these
projects to move forward.
The DOT director says they're
already trying better
coordination with their chief
procurement officer, the
expedite paperwork and processes
and cut red tape.
01;39;55;02 if we can resolve
that problem it would be
better, but their priorities are
not always the airport
difficulties like the troubled
power plant
working for some backup power
now?
FORD 01;44;22;03 yes, it
manually can be turned on,
plus we still have another seven
generators out there so
that thing can work perfectly,
automatically?
FORD 01;45;42;49 i think it's
slated for next month
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