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ELCCO Inc. is the islands leading electrician when it comes to service calls. Whether it is troubleshooting a bathroom light fixture in a rental property or maintaining parking lot lighting for the largest shopping centers on the island, ELCCO is able to tackle any size or type of project.

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ELCCO utilizes its core ideology, its values and purpose, to guide business decisions and direction. By relying on these principles when working with the smallest customer or the largest project to date we will be successful in any endeavor undertaken. We exist to foster the integration of dynamic resources, to unleash every stakeholder’s potential to achieve greatness, and to produce the highest quality results through our efforts.

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What would an electrical failure look like for your business?

When your electrical system fails, it could be costly, dangerous, and even deadly.

Electrical power is essential to the operation of your facility. If you’re not operating, you’re losing revenue. An ill-timed electrical failure could lead to canceled events or bookings, non-operation, not to mention property damage. Moreover, it could put your employees, customers, and visitors at serious risk.

If everything is working, there’s no problem, right?

Why Electrical Systems Fail

Over time, the deterioration of electrical equipment is normal. But, overloading, excessive duty cycling, not to mention the severe conditions of our island can accelerate that deterioration process significantly.

Causes of premature electrical degradation:

  • Lack of maintenance
  • Harsh environment
  • Moisture & salt
  • Dirt & contaminants
  • Growth (organic/plant)

Keeping costs predictable

Most of us understand the importance of changing our motor oil. That simple act of prevention keeps your car running and helps you avoid replacing the engine, which could cost thousands. When it comes to your electrical facility, investing in preventive maintenance can save you millions.

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Elcco Electric Inc. is a full service electrical contractor that exists to bring together talented and motivated tradesmen to enable our customers to realize their electrical needs and goals. We look forward to working with you and empowering your business or residence.

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Elcco is an industry leading electrical contractor. Our goal is to consistently deliver top quality electrical installations in the most efficient and professional manner possible. We do so with our customers’ success in mind: our competitive pricing and honest business practices will drive the growth of our customers.

We look forward to working with you and empowering your business.

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We exist to foster the integration of dynamic resources, to unleash every stakeholder’s potential to achieve greatness, and to produce the highest quality results through our efforts.

ELCCO has succeeded in creating a great working environment which has attracted some of the best talent available.

Our Purpose

Part of ELCCO’s core purpose, the reason ELCCO exists, is to produce the highest quality results through our efforts. Quality is ingrained in every facet of the company’s operations from the first interaction with a new customer to the final inspection on a completed project.



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We have been very pleased with Elcco's performance through the full duration of these highly detailed and technical projects. Elcco's management team understands the benefit of thoroughly preplanning a project and then closely monitoring each component throughout the project lifecycle, going above and beyond to accommodate the needs of both the Owner and the GC. Elcco's guys understand the needs of the site work contractors, masons, framers, pump installers and other mechanical contractors. Combined with their excellent precision during layout, this attentiveness to other trades allows everyone involved in a project to work faster and happier. These attributes, and many more, make Elcco an innovative leader in the Hawaii electrical trade and my first call when bidding new projects, especially the complicated ones.

It is my pleasure to express our sincere appreciation to Elcco Inc. for the outstanding work on the Pahoa Park Master Plan Project. I wish to commend the Elcco team on their dedication and professionalism. It has been a true partnership as we moved through this project. Elcco's ability to address and respond to all obstacles and roadblock issues in a timely and appropriate manner ensured the project was a success. I would like to acknowledge the Elcco project team for their positive attitudes, commitment to excellence and dedication to quality. Their dedication and commitment ensured the project was a success to both Nan Inc. and the County of Hawaii.

As the Electrical and Control Systems engineering and Project Management firm, I am pleased with the performance of Elcco Electric on the Piiholo Water Treatment Plant for the County of Maui. Elcco Electric had the responsibility of the prime electrical contractor, performing both electrical installation and also subcontractor coordination. They performed in an excellent manner adhering to all project requirements. Their workforce coordinated their work with the County of Maui operations staff keeping the facility in production during the entire project upgrade with minimal interruptions. The Elcco electricians exhibited high quality workmanship and in many instances exceeded the requirements of the project specifications. Their project management skills were far above the industry average. This included exemplary performance regarding regarding adhering to critical path scheduling and subcontractor coordination.

I truly hope Elcco will remain dedicated to helping Kamehameha Schools complete their annual project objectives here on Maui and throughout the State of Hawaii. Elcco is a true leader in the local electrical trade.

Elcco always displays professionalism, integrity, timeliness and a positive attitude in all of our dealings with them. Our clients are requesting that we use Elcco on any of their future projects. Elcco constantly strives for a win, win situation for all concerned. I look forward to working with them on future projects.

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Frank Okimoto
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Project Manager

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ELCCO Inc. is a leading electrical contractor on the Hawaiian Islands. Part of our core purpose is to create a working environment rich with resources and opportunities for professional electrical technicians and administrative staff to further their profession and develop their careers in Hawaii.

Why Join our Winning Team?

As a valued member of the ELCCO team, we want to be sure to offer you and your family a comprehensive benefit offering as part of your total compensation. Your daily hard work, that is a large contribution to our team, is valuable and we want to be sure that you are covered on and off the job. Here are just a few perks to working with ELCCO:

  • Medical Insurance: ELCCO pays 100% of the employee premium and 50% of dependent premiums.

  • 401K with employer match

  • Tuition Assistance Program

  • PTO for Full-Time Employees

  • Paid Holidays

  • Life Insurance at 2X Annual Earnings

  • Monthly & Annual Raffles

  • Free Swag

  • Bonus

  • Quarterly Pau Hana Employee Appreciation Events

  • Opportunity for Growth & Advancement

  • Electrical Apprenticeship Training Program

 

Earn while you learn. An Electrician Apprenticeship is a 5-year program that you go through to get the skills and hands-on experience you need to become a licensed electrician. As an apprentice, you will receive a combination of classroom education and paid on-the-job experience.

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Understanding Your Backup Generator: Why Knowing Your Connected Emergency Loads Is Essential

Last Updated: May 15, 2025 by: Joe Streeter
Backup generators and battery systems can be lifesavers when the power goes out. Whether you're a homeowner, a small business, or a large commercial facility like a Hawaiian resort, having a reliable backup power source can mean the difference between operational chaos and seamless continuity. However, not all generators are created equal, and their ability to power your property depends heavily on how much load they're tasked with. This makes it critical to understand which loads are connected to your backup generator or battery system, especially in Hawaii, where grid outages can be common.

The Challenge of Power Outages and PSPS in Hawaii

Hawaii's unique geography and climate make it particularly susceptible to natural hazards. From hurricanes to wildfires, the islands face risks that can compromise the electric grid. Public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events, which are activated to help prevent wildfires during high-risk weather conditions, may become more common in the near future, especially when looking at California as the model.  More information on the Hawaiian Electric PSPS Plan can be found here: Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) | Hawaiian Electric While these planned outages may be necessary for community safety, they can create significant challenges for residents, businesses, and especially large commercial facilities like resorts and hospitals. Ensuring that your backup generator is prepared to handle the essential loads during these events is key to weathering the outages with minimal disruption. For hospitality operations, a power outage isn't just an inconvenience, it's a potential threat to guest safety, operational continuity, and business reputation.

Why Understanding Your Emergency Loads Is Crucial

  • Preventing Overloads: Generators and batteries have limits. Connecting too many appliances and systems to a generator can cause it to become overloaded, leading to potential failure or damage. This is particularly critical for large commercial facilities like resorts, where the stakes are high. A power failure can mean compromised guest safety, lost revenue, and significant operational disruptions.
  • Prioritizing Critical Systems: During a power outage, not every device or system is equally important. For a resort, this means distinguishing between essential and non-essential loads. Critical systems might include:
    • Emergency lighting in common areas and guest rooms
    • Elevator and accessibility systems
    • Communication systems (front desk, guest room phones, Wi-Fi)
    • Security and access control systems
    • Critical refrigeration for food services and perishable inventory
    • Medical response facilities
    • Server rooms and data centers
    • Life safety equipment such as fire alarm systems
  • Optimizing Fuel Efficiency: Generators rely on fuel — whether gasoline, diesel, or propane. An overloaded generator will burn through fuel faster, potentially leaving you in the dark before the outage ends. By managing connected loads, you can optimize fuel usage and extend your generator’s runtime. For resorts, this means developing sophisticated load-shedding protocols that can dynamically adjust power allocation based on current occupancy and critical needs.
  • Avoiding Equipment Damage: Sensitive electronics like computers, TVs, and medical devices can be damaged by inconsistent power supply. When you know what’s connected to your generator, you can ensure surge protectors or voltage regulators are installed for devices that require stable power. 
  • Advanced Energy Management: Batteries and generators can work in tandem with sophisticated smart energy management systems to prioritize essential loads, balancing power distribution and optimizing energy use across a facility. For resorts, this might mean integrating solar + battery systems to reduce fuel dependency and create a more sustainable backup power strategy. 

Steps to Identify and Manage Connected Loads

  1. Conduct a Load Assessment. Start by listing all the appliances, devices, and systems you want to power during an outage. Note their wattage or amperage requirements, which can usually be found on the device’s label or user manual. For a resort, this goes beyond typical residential considerations and includes complex infrastructure like:
    • Kitchen equipment and hood fans
    • Water treatment and pumping systems
    • HVAC systems and compressors
    • Point-of-sale systems
    • Event management technology
    • Guest room electronics
    • Telecommunications and internet
    • Chillers and cooling systems
  1. Categorize by Priority. Divide your systems into "critical," "essential," and "non-essential" loads:
  • Critical: Life safety systems, medical equipment, core communication infrastructure, strategic lighting, fire alarm systems.
  • Essential: Basic operational systems needed to maintain guest safety and minimal services, such as elevators and lights.
  • Non-essential: Comfort and convenience systems that can be temporarily suspended.
  1. Match Loads to Generator or Battery Capacity. Compare the total wattage of your essential loads to your generator’s output capacity. Make sure there is enough buffer to avoid running the generator at maximum capacity for extended periods, which can shorten its lifespan.  If you don’t have a generator or back up battery, use the Load Assessment to size your back up power source needs.
  2. Work with an Electrician. For complex facilities like condos, resorts, and hospitals, consulting with electrical engineers who specialize in commercial and industrial infrastructure is crucial. They can help:
  • Design redundant power architectures
  • Create sophisticated load-shedding protocols
  • Ensure compliance with hospitality and safety regulation
  1. Test Regularly. Conduct periodic tests of your generator under load conditions. This ensures it’s functioning properly and will help you identify any adjustments needed to your load management plan. This isn't just about ensuring the generator works, but about testing your entire emergency response protocol.

Backup Power for Commercial Facilities: Generators vs. Battery Systems

Both fuel-powered generators and battery backup systems play critical roles in ensuring uninterrupted power for home and commercial facility essential loads. These systems are essential for businesses, hospitals, data centers, and other operations where even brief outages can have serious consequences. For large facilities with critical infrastructure this requires creating a resilient, multi-layered power strategy.  Here are key considerations for using both systems effectively:

Fuel-Powered Generators

  1. Reliable for High Power Demands: Generators are well-suited for facilities with significant power requirements. They can handle large HVAC systems, industrial machinery, and other heavy loads that exceed the capacity of most battery systems.
  2. Extended Runtime: Generators can run continuously as long as they are supplied with fuel, making them ideal for prolonged outages. Facilities should ensure adequate fuel storage and delivery plans to sustain operations during extended PSPS events.
  3. Essential Load Support: Generators can be configured to prioritize critical systems such as medical equipment, life support, data servers, and refrigeration. A properly designed transfer switch ensures these loads receive uninterrupted power.

Battery Backup Systems

  1. Seamless Transition and Reliability: Batteries provide instant power without any delay, ensuring critical systems and equipment remain operational during an outage.
  2. Integration with Renewable Energy: Many commercial facilities in Hawaii are adopting solar PV energy systems. Batteries integrated with solar panels allow these facilities to harness renewable energy during daylight hours and store it for use at night or as emergency back-up power during PSPS events or other outages.
  3. Scalable Solutions: Battery backup systems can be scaled to match the energy requirements of large operations, making them suitable for facilities that have high power demands.
  4. Reduced Dependency on Fuel: During prolonged outages or disasters, fuel supply chains can be disrupted. Battery systems eliminate the need for fuel logistics, reducing the risk of power loss due to fuel shortages.
  5. Advanced Energy Management: Batteries can work in tandem with sophisticated energy management systems to prioritize essential loads, balancing power distribution and optimizing energy use across a facility.
By leveraging the strengths of both generators and battery systems, commercial facilities can create a resilient power strategy that minimizes risks during forced or planned outages.  Additionally, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission recently approved a new program for battery storage devices: Decision and Order No. 41616.  The program is called Bring Your Own-Device Plus (BYOD+) and will provide an attractive upfront incentive as well as a retail rate export compensation for participation in the Demand Response and grid load management program.

The Hawaii Perspective

Living in Hawaii adds unique considerations to generator use. With limited access to fuel during emergencies, efficient generator use becomes even more critical. PSPS events may last longer than anticipated, and Hawaii’s remote location means residents must be more self-reliant. By carefully managing your generator or battery loads, you can make the most of your backup power while minimizing risks and disruptions. Resorts, in particular, have a responsibility not just to their guests and operations, but often to the broader community during disaster scenarios.

Conclusion

Whether you're a homeowner or managing a large resort, a backup power strategy is about more than just keeping the lights on. It's about maintaining safety, ensuring operational continuity, and protecting your investment. In Hawaii, where natural hazards are a reality, being proactive about your backup power isn't just smart, it's essential.  By carefully understanding and managing your connected loads, you can create a robust, resilient power strategy that keeps you running smoothly, no matter what challenges come your way. Be proactive, stay prepared, and ensure your backup generator or battery system is ready to power you through any outage. Want to ensure your facility is prepared for the next outage? Contact an expert for a backup power assessment today.

About the Author

Joe Streeter is a seasoned energy resilience advisor with over 15 years of experience in the Hawaii energy and renewable energy market. Specializing in renewable energy solutions for large scale commercial and utility scale projects in Hawaii.  Joe brings practical expertise in solar integration, battery backup systems, microgrid, and emergency preparedness. His work focuses on helping organizations identify, create, and design sustainable, reliable power strategies that protect both operational continuity and critical infrastructure.  Joe works at ELCCO Electric as a Business Development Manager. When not advising clients on energy resilience, Joe is an active member of the Maui Facilities and Engineering Leadership Council, Community Council of Maui, and Architect Institute of America, Maui Chapter.

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Effective date: May 27, 2020

ELCCO, Inc. (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the ELCCO, Inc. mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

 

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Service is the ELCCO, Inc. mobile application operated by ELCCO, Inc.

Personal Data

Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

 

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

Usage Data

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data (“Usage Data”).

Tracking Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

 

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ELCCO, Inc. uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service

  • To notify you about changes to our Service

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

  • To provide customer care and support

  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service

  • To monitor the usage of the Service

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

 

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Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

ELCCO, Inc. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

 

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ELCCO, Inc. may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation

  • To protect and defend the rights or property of ELCCO, Inc.

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

  • To protect against legal liability

 

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

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We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

 

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Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

 

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We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

 

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