Bill Text: HI HB856 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Electric Grid Resiliency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-01 - Re-referred to EEP/PVM, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 10 [HB856 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-HB856-Introduced.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to electric grid resiliency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 46, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§46- Identification
of critical infrastructure. The
State shall ensure that there is an adequate supply of critical infrastructure
in the State and that critical infrastructure can continue operations in
service of the public following a natural disaster. The counties, in coordination with the department
of business, economic development, and tourism, shall be responsible for the
implementation of this section in a manner consistent with this chapter. Each county, in coordination with the
department of business, economic development, and tourism, shall, within one
year of the effective date of Act , Session Laws of Hawaii
2019:
(1) Develop a comprehensive
list of critical infrastructure in this State. Such comprehensive list shall include:
(A) The
name and address of each critical infrastructure location;
(B) The
name, telephone number, and email address of at least one individual employed
at the critical infrastructure location in a supervisory role;
(C) The
estimated capacity of each designated emergency shelter, stated as the number
of individuals who could feasibly take refuge at the designated emergency
shelter during a natural disaster or state of emergency; and
(D) The
estimated critical load of each critical infrastructure location;
(2) Determine, with
respect to each critical infrastructure location, the estimated number of hours
that the designated emergency shelter will be able to continue operations
following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency. Such determination shall consider:
(A) Each
critical infrastructure location's capability to store or access adequate food,
water, and medical supplies to serve the local community that may be expected
to rely on the critical infrastructure following a natural disaster or during a
state of emergency;
(B) With
respect to each designated emergency shelter, the capability to store or access
adequate food, water, and medical supplies to serve the estimated number of
individuals who can feasibly take refuge at the designated emergency shelter
following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency; and
(C) Whether
each critical infrastructure location has sufficient access to a source of
backup electricity such that it will be capable of supplying its critical load
during an electrical grid outage without significant interruption; and
(3) Develop, with
respect to each critical infrastructure location, a list of improvements that
the department, in coordination with the counties, considers reasonably
necessary to ensure that each critical infrastructure location can continue
operations following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency. Such list of improvements shall include, as
applicable:
(A) Food
and water storage equipment;
(B) Medical
supplies and equipment to store perishable medical supplies; and
(C) Grid
resiliency improvements; provided that any electricity generation technology
used in such grid resiliency improvements shall be consistent with the
renewable portfolio standards established pursuant to section 269-92.
§46- Critical
infrastructure access to electricity.
(a) The State shall ensure
that critical infrastructure locations in the State have access to adequate
supplies of electricity after natural disasters and during states of
emergency. The counties, in coordination
with the department of business, economic development, and tourism, shall be
responsible for the implementation of this section in a manner consistent with
this chapter. Each county, in
coordination with the department of business, economic development, and
tourism, shall, within one year of the effective date of Act
, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, develop a plan to ensure that
each critical infrastructure location has access to electricity after natural
disasters and during states of emergency.
Such plan shall:
(1) Recommend grid
resiliency improvements for each critical infrastructure location; provided
that any electricity generation technology used in such grid resiliency
improvements shall be consistent with the renewable portfolio standards
established pursuant to section 269-92;
(2) Consider
potential cost savings that may result from the use of grid resiliency
improvements at critical infrastructure locations to supply both the critical
infrastructure location's daily electricity needs or a portion of such daily
electricity needs in addition to supplying the critical infrastructure's
critical load after a natural disaster or during a state of emergency; and
(3) Consider and
account for the increasing use and importance of electricity in the fields of
transportation, communications, and medicine and each of these field's
importance to responding to natural disasters and states of emergency.
(b) For a county with an electrically isolated
community, the county shall, in coordination with the department of business,
economic development, and tourism, within one year of the effective date of Act
, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, develop recommendations for
measures to ensure access to electricity in the electrically isolated community
after natural disasters and during states of emergency. Such plan shall:
(1) Include a brief
statement explaining the reasons that the county is an electrically isolated
community; and
(2) Recommend
specific grid resiliency improvements that would allow the electrically
isolated community to have access to electricity in the event of a prolonged
outage of the electrical grid after natural disasters and during states of
emergency.
The
county shall only recommend measures that are consistent with the renewable
portfolio standards established pursuant to section 269-92.
The
county shall consider measures capable of supplying both the critical loads of
critical infrastructure in the electrically isolated community as well as other
loads in the electrically isolated community."
SECTION 2. Section 196-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding six new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Battery storage
device" means any identifiable facility, equipment, or apparatus that:
(1) Is electrically
connected to a critical infrastructure's critical load and paired with a new or
existing renewable generation system;
(2) Stores
electricity from its paired renewable generation system via a chemical or
mechanical process;
(3) Delivers stored
energy at a later time to the critical infrastructure's critical load, an
electric utility, or the Hawaii electric system; and
(4) Has a storage
capacity capable of supplying:
(A) A
critical infrastructure's critical load for a minimum of forty-eight hours; or
(B) The
total of a critical infrastructure's average daily usage for a minimum of five
hours.
"Critical infrastructure"
means police stations, fire stations, hospitals, nursing homes, designated
emergency shelters, and such other critical infrastructure that may be
designated as such by the governor or other authorized official pursuant to a
natural disaster or state of emergency designation. Critical infrastructure may include privately
owned property.
"Critical load" means
the minimum load necessary for any critical infrastructure to perform its
essential functions during a natural disaster or state of emergency.
"Designated emergency
shelter" means any building, owned by the State, a county, or a municipal
government agency, that has been designated by appropriate authorities as a
place of community refuge made available to provide temporary shelter and
housing to citizens during any natural disaster or state of emergency as
declared by the governor or other authorized official.
"Electrically isolated
community" means a rural or remote community vulnerable to prolonged
outages because the community is served by a single distribution or
transmission line, is located in or surrounded by mountainous or other
isolating terrain, or has historically experienced frequent or prolonged
outages. For purposes of this
definition, a prolonged outage is any outage of the electrical grid lasting
forty-eight hours or longer.
"Grid resiliency" means
the installation and operation of electric equipment that:
(1) Prevents or
reduces the severity of damage to the electric grid from a natural disaster or
state of emergency;
(2) Enables faster
recovery of normal grid operations after a grid outage due to a natural
disaster or state of emergency;
(3) Maintains
critical loads at critical infrastructure during a grid outage due to a natural
disaster or state of emergency; and
(4) May include,
without limitation, distributed energy resources, battery storage devices, and
microgrid projects as that term is defined in section 269-46."
SECTION 3. Chapter 196, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§196- Identification
of critical infrastructure. The
State shall ensure that there is an adequate supply of critical infrastructure
in the State and that critical infrastructure can continue operations in service
of the public following a natural disaster.
The department of business, economic development and tourism, in
coordination with the counties, shall be responsible for the implementation of
this section in a manner consistent with this chapter. The department shall, within one year of the
effective date of Act , Session Laws of Hawaii 2019:
(1) Develop a
comprehensive list of critical infrastructure in this State. Such comprehensive list shall include:
(A) The
name and address of each critical infrastructure location;
(B) The
name, telephone number, and email address of at least one individual employed
at the critical infrastructure location in a supervisory role;
(C) The
estimated capacity of each designated emergency shelter, stated as the number
of individuals who could feasibly take refuge at the designated emergency
shelter during a natural disaster or state of emergency; and
(D) The
estimated critical load of each critical infrastructure location;
(2) Determine, with
respect to each critical infrastructure location, the estimated number of hours
that the designated emergency shelter would be able to continue operations
following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency. Such determination shall consider:
(A) Each
critical infrastructure location's capability to store or access adequate food,
water, and medical supplies to serve the local community that may be expected
to rely on the critical infrastructure following a natural disaster or during a
state of emergency;
(B) With
respect to each designated emergency shelter, the capabilities to store or
access adequate food, water, and medical supplies to serve the estimated number
of individuals who could feasibly take refuge at the designated emergency
shelter following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency; and
(C) Whether
each critical infrastructure location has sufficient access to a source of
backup electricity such that it would be capable of supplying its critical load
during an electrical grid outage without significant interruption; and
(3) Develop, with
respect to each critical infrastructure location, a list of improvements that
the department, in coordination with the counties, considers reasonably
necessary to ensure that each critical infrastructure location can continue
operations following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency. Such list of improvements shall include, as
applicable:
(A) Food
and water storage equipment;
(B) Medical
supplies and equipment to store perishable medical supplies; and
(C) Grid
resiliency improvements, provided that any electricity generation technology
used in such grid resiliency improvements shall be consistent with the renewable
portfolio standards established pursuant to section 269-92.
§196- Critical
infrastructure access to electricity. The State shall ensure that critical
infrastructure locations in the State have access to adequate supplies of
electricity after natural disasters and during states of emergency. The department of business, economic
development, and tourism, in coordination with the counties, shall be
responsible for the implementation of this section in a manner consistent with
this chapter. The department shall,
within one year of the effective date of Act , Session Laws of
Hawaii 2019:
(1) Develop a plan
to ensure that each critical infrastructure location has access to electricity
after natural disasters and during states of emergency. Such plan shall:
(A) Recommend
grid resiliency improvements for each critical infrastructure location;
provided that any electricity generation technology used in such grid
resiliency improvements shall be consistent with the renewable portfolio
standards established pursuant to section 269-92;
(B) Consider
potential cost savings that may result from the use of grid resiliency
improvements at critical infrastructure locations to supply both the critical
infrastructure location's daily electricity needs, or a portion of such daily
electricity needs, in addition to supplying the critical infrastructure's
critical load after a natural disaster or during a state of emergency; and
(C) Consider
and account for the increasing use and importance of electricity in the fields
of transportation, communications, and medicine and each of these field's
importance to responding to natural disasters and states of emergency;
(2) Develop
recommendations for measures to ensure access to electricity in electrically
isolated communities in the State after natural disasters and during states of
emergency. Such plan shall:
(A) Identify
and list electrically isolated communities; and
(B) Recommend
specific grid resiliency improvements that would allow electrically isolated
communities to have access to electricity in the event of a prolonged outage of
the electrical grid after natural disasters and during states of emergency;
provided that the department:
(i) Shall
only recommend measures that are consistent with the renewable portfolio
standards established pursuant to section 269-92; and
(ii) Shall
consider measures capable of supplying both the critical loads of critical
infrastructure in electrically isolated communities and other loads in such
electrically isolated communities."
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Electric Grid Resiliency; Critical Infrastructure
Description:
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in coordination with the counties, to identify critical infrastructure locations and ensure those locations have adequate supplies of electricity during and after a natural disaster or during a state of emergency.
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