Bill Text: HI HCR223 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Plan for 100 percent renewable energy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-13 - Referred to EEP, CPC, referral sheet 34 [HCR223 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HCR223-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	223
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING HAWAII'S ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO ESTABLISH AND SET A PLANNING GOAL OF MEETING ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF HAWAII'S ENERGY NEEDS FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES INDIGENOUS TO HAWAII.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii obtains the majority of its energy from imported oil resources; and

 

     WHEREAS, as imported fuel becomes increasingly scarce and more expensive, these imported fuels will eventually stop flowing to Hawaii; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii has an abundance of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, ocean, and geothermal power; and

 

     WHEREAS, renewable energy from sources indigenous to Hawaii is a necessary solution that addresses the problem created by the uncertainty of the availability of imported fuels to Hawaii; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2014, the Senate concurring, that each of Hawaii's electric utilities is requested to establish and set a planning goal of meeting one hundred percent of Hawaii's energy needs from renewable sources indigenous to Hawaii; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that each utility is requested to submit a written report to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the Regular Session of 2015 that includes:

 

(1)  The utility's plan for providing sufficient amounts of usable energy when imported fuels stop being imported to Hawaii;

(2)  The utility's anticipated business structure in the year in which it projects imported fuels will no longer be a viable source of energy in Hawaii; and

 

(3)  Whether the utility would be able to meet its goal for each of the islands that it serves of one hundred percent renewable energy produced from sources indigenous to Hawaii; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., the President of Maui Electric Company, Limited, the President of Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, and the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Plan for 100 percent renewable energy