As Hawaii moves through the first full business week of the year, several developments in the first week of January offer important signals for industries that depend heavily on electricity, climate control, and operational reliability. While none of these events may feel disruptive on their own, together they highlight growing pressure points across energy, food systems, hospitality, and property management . These developments may seem incremental, but they signal important

As a new year begins, commercial spaces across Hawaii—malls, grocery stores, hotels, restaurants, and multi-site facilities—face a familiar reality: the quality of HVAC-R performance directly affects customer experience, operational efficiency, and risk management. For owners and operators, this raises a critical question: if your facility were evaluated from the customer’s perspective during peak demand, would your HVAC-R systems earn a passing grade? The past year offered p

The December holiday period quietly places some of the highest sustained demands on HVAC-R systems in Hawaii. Increased occupancy, extended operating hours, and continuous equipment use combine to create a real-world stress test—often revealing performance issues that remain hidden during normal operations. With year-end celebrations and staffing constraints, most facilities don’t have the opportunity to address these issues immediately. That makes the first week of January  

The holiday period in Hawaii is here, and with it comes one of the busiest operational windows of the year. From Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day, hotels, grocery stores, restaurants, cold storage facilities, and managed properties face peak demand, high guest traffic, and elevated system loads. This guide focuses on coping strategies to keep operations smooth, staff supported, and customers satisfied during this peak holiday season. 🌴 Understanding the Current Holiday S

As Hawaii moves through the 2nd week of December, several developments from both within the islands and the U.S. mainland are shaping risks for businesses that rely heavily on cooling and refrigeration. Hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, food distributors, and cold‑storage operators all face heightened sensitivity during the holiday season — when visitor volume, banquet activity, prepared food sales, and perishable inventories tend to surge. Recent power advisories, tighten

As December begins, Hawaii’s HVAC-dependent sectors — including property management, multi-site owners, foodservice, cold storage, grocery retail, hospitality, and commercial facilities — are benefiting from several encouraging developments. Recent updates from the U.S. mainland, combined with growing local manufacturing capability, point to improved energy reliability, easing supply-chain pressures in some categories, and new opportunities for local fabrication. Below is an

As Hawaii moves deeper into its clean-energy transition, business owners are feeling the effects across operations, maintenance planning, and long-term infrastructure decisions.

Within the past week, several developments emerged that directly affect businesses that rely on HVAC and refrigeration systems, including cold-storage operators, food distributors, hotels, convenience stores, grocery stores, malls, and other retail or hospitality operations. The most significant change is the state’s approval of a 25.75% Young Brothers inter-island shipping rate increase , with an even sharper hike for refrigerated freight. At the same time, tourism remains s

In the first half of November, several utility, fuel, policy, and transportation updates emerged that could directly impact hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, resorts, and cold-storage facilities across Hawaii. While each development may seem incremental, together they contribute to rising operating costs, heightened outage risk, and increasing pressure on food safety and equipment reliability. For any business reliant on refrigeration, HVAC, and consist

Hawaii hasn’t seen a major island-wide grid failure recently, but the last two weeks prove something many facility managers already know: it doesn’t take a huge outage to cause a major HVAC-R disaster. Even momentary voltage drops, 5-minute shutdowns, and planned maintenance windows are still knocking refrigeration systems offline across Maui and Oahu—sometimes without businesses realizing until temperatures rise. And as shipping backlogs continue at Honolulu Harbor, the timi

Hawaii’s energy landscape is evolving fast. Two major developments are redefining how businesses manage power, efficiency, and sustainability. Earlier this month, the State of Hawaii signed a partnership agreement with JERA Co., Inc., a Japanese energy giant and the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Around the same time, industry leaders renewed the push for a Building Performance Standard (BPS) that would require large buildings to meet stricter effici

Hawaiian Electric’s new Backup Power Rebate Program, announced October 22, is one of the best opportunities yet for Hawaii’s commercial sector to strengthen resilience—and it directly affects every business that depends on refrigeration, cooling, or air conditioning to operate. At Alltemp Hawaii, we’re encouraging our clients to take advantage of this program immediately. Why? Because this is a rare moment when preparedness, cost savings, and sustainability all align—and wait

As Hawaii transitions into the wet season , many expect power reliability to stabilize. Yet October remains a sensitive month  — it still carries the residual effects of the dry, windy season , when wildfire risk and equipment strain stay high across the islands. In recent weeks, Hawaiian Electric  has announced both unplanned and scheduled power outages on Oʻahu and neighboring islands — from short maintenance interruptions to precautionary shutdowns. These outages, though b

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