Bill Text: HI HB2238 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Renewable Portfolio Standards.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (S) Referred to ENE, CPN. [HB2238 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2238-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  18-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2238

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2238 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify Hawaii's Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) law by amending the definition of "renewable electrical energy" to include customer-sited, grid-connected renewable energy generation, beginning January 1, 2015.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Consumer Protection of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter; Public Utilities Commission; Hawaiian Electric Company; Maui Electric Company; and Hawaii Electric Light Company testified in support of this bill.  Island Pacific Energy and Blue Planet Foundation testified in opposition to this measure.  The Hawaii Solar Energy Association and Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance offered comments.

 

     Your Committee finds, with respect to RPS, that beginning January 1, 2015, customer-sited, grid-connected renewable-energy systems (customer-sited systems) will no longer be included in the category of "electric energy savings."  Your Committee notes that this bill will make it explicit that beginning January 1, 2015, customer-cited systems will be in the "electrical energy generated" category.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2238 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

		____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair