Hawaii lawmakers will hold a hearing Jan. 14 to investigate the islandwide power outage last month.

State. Sen. Mike Gabbard, chairman of the Committee on Energy and the Environment, said the meeting is not "about pointing fingers," but is meant to get answers on what went wrong Dec. 26 and how it can be prevented.

"The business community and residents deserve some answers," Gabbard said in a news release. "These outages do far more than simply leave our residents sitting at home in the dark. They have serious negative effects on businesses and our economy, which is having a tough enough time as it is."

The meeting will start at 2 p.m. in conference room 229 at the state Capitol.

Hawaiian Electric Co. officials and others will make presentations.

A question-and-answer period will follow.

For more information, call Gabbard's office at 586-6830.