A Hawaiian Electric Co. employee said a lightning strike surged the system
Thanks for the link — I searched Google News, but they didn’t have any additional updates, no link to tha HA, it seems they aren’t checking the Honolulu Advertiser.
Finally they picked up another article in TIME Magazine, but your article had more info.
FWIW:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868825,00.html