Bill Text: HI HB433 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Energy Efficiency; Household Appliances
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB433 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB433-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Energy Efficiency; Household Appliances
Description:
Directs the public benefits fee administrator to develop and implement a program to encourage residential retail electricity customers to replace inefficient household appliances with ENERGY STAR appliances.
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to energy efficiency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 269, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part VII to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§269- Household appliance replacement program. (a) The public benefits fee administrator shall develop and implement a program to encourage residential retail electricity customers to replace qualifying household appliances with qualifying ENERGY STAR energy efficient appliances. The public benefits fee administrator shall establish a program goal of replacing fifty per cent of qualifying household appliances in the State within five years of the implementation of the program.
(b) The public benefits fee administrator shall offer a cash financial incentive to qualifying residential retail electricity customers who replace a qualifying air conditioner owned by that customer and that was manufactured prior to January 1, 2000, with a qualifying ENERGY STAR air conditioner; provided that the customer certifies, on forms prescribed by the public benefits fund administrator, that the air conditioner was disposed of in an environmentally sound manner approved by the administrator.
(c) The public benefits fee administrator may develop and implement a cash financial incentive program for the replacement of other qualifying household appliances, including refrigerators, if analysis indicates that such a program would be effective to encourage residential retail electricity customers to replace older inefficient household appliances with more efficient appliances.
(d) As used in this section, "ENERGY STAR" shall have the same meaning as in section 196-11.
(e) The public benefits fee administrator may expend moneys collected through the public benefits fee for the purposes of this section, subject to the requirements of section 269-121.
(f) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 91, for the purposes of this section."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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