Bill Text: HI HB1199 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Utilities; Net Energy Metering
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - The committee(s) on EEP recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1199 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1199-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ENERGY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 269-101.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§269-101.5[]]
Maximum capacity of eligible customer-generator. The eligible
customer-generator shall have a capacity of not more than [fifty]
kilowatts; provided that the public utilities commission may increase the
maximum allowable capacity that eligible customer-generators may have to an
amount greater than [fifty]
kilowatts by rule or order."
SECTION 2. Section 269-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending its title and subsection (a) to read as follows:
"§269-102 Standard contract or tariff;
competitive bidding process; rate structure. (a) Every electric
utility shall develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy
metering and shall make this contract available to eligible
customer-generators, upon request, [on a first-come-first-served basis]
until the time that the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible
customer-generators equals [.5]
per cent of the electric utility's system peak demand; provided that the public
utilities commission [may]:
(1) May modify, by rule or order, the
total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators[;
provided further that the public utilities commission shall];
(2) Shall ensure that a percentage of
the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators
shall be reserved for electricity produced by eligible residential or small
commercial customer-generators[. The public utilities commission may];
(3) May define, by rule or order, the
maximum capacity for eligible residential or small commercial
customer-generators[.]; and
(4) Effective , 2014, shall require for eligible customer-generators with a capacity of more than kilowatts, that contracts be awarded, pursuant to a competitive sealed bidding process established by the public utilities commission by rule or order, to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder whose bid meets the requirements and criteria set forth in the invitation for bids.
Notwithstanding the generating capacity requirements of this subsection, the public utilities commission may evaluate, on an island-by-island basis, the applicability of the generating capacity requirements of this subsection and, in its discretion, may exempt an island or a utility grid system from the generating capacity requirements."
SECTION 3. Section 269-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§269-104 Additional
customer-generators. Notwithstanding section 269-102, an electric utility
is not obligated to provide net energy metering to additional
customer-generators in its service area when the combined total peak generating
capacity of all eligible customer-generators served by all the electric
utilities in that service area furnishing net energy metering to eligible
customer-generators equals [.5] per
cent of the system peak demand of those electric utilities; provided that the
public utilities commission may increase, by rule or order, the allowable
percentage of the electric utility's system peak demand produced from eligible
customer-generators in the electric utility's service area, whereupon the
electric utility will be obligated to provide net energy metering to additional
eligible customer-generators in that service area up to the increased
percentage amount."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Utilities; Net Energy Metering
Description:
Amends net energy metering program by: (1) requiring large-capacity eligible customer generators to be selected by competitive sealed bidding; and (2) amending maximum allowable capacity of eligible customer-generators and total rated generating capacity.
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