Bill Text: HI HCR224 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Utilities Commission; Renewable Energy Objectives

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-30 - (H) Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on CPC as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Carroll, Herkes, Manahan, Wooley excused (4). [HCR224 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR224-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1383-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 224

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 224 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO CARRY OUT OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT ELECTRIC UTILITIES IN MAXIMIZING RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage the Public Utilities Commission to accelerate the development and penetration of renewable energy generation and to reduce the use of fossil fuel based electricity in Hawaii through various actions.  

 

     The Public Utilities Commission and Blue Planet Foundation offered testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Electric Company, Inc., and the Hawaii Renewable Energy Association offered testimony in support of the intent of this measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding the phrase "among other things" to the end of each numbered paragraph to clarify that the Public Utilities Commission is not limited to the means specifically referenced in this measure.

 

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 224, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 224, H.D. 1.

    

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair