Bill Text: HI HCR230 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative End-Use Efficiency Working Group

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-16 - (H) Resolution adopted in final form. [HCR230 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HCR230-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3168

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 230

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 230 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVE END-USE EFFICIENCY WORKING GROUP TO CONVENE DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS TO IDENTIFY BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION AND WORK TOWARDS A CONSENSUS POSITION TO PROMOTE THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF NET ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative End-Use Efficiency Working Group to convene development and building industry stakeholders to identify barriers to implementation and work towards a consensus position to promote the design and construction of net zero energy buildings.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by one organization.  One state agency and one organization submitted comments.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that improving the design and construction of new buildings is the most cost-effective way to address energy efficiency and conservation.  The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative set a statewide goal of using seventy per cent clean energy by 2030 through the use of forty per cent renewable energy resources and thirty per cent energy efficiency.  Net zero energy buildings are designed to consume net zero energy and produce zero carbon emissions, which would help Hawaii reach its seventy per cent clean energy goal.  This measure will encourage development and building stakeholders, state and county agencies, and the State Building Code Council to identify barriers to implementation and to propose solutions to promote the design and construction of net zero energy buildings.  Your Committees request that the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative End-Use Efficiency Working Group invite representatives of the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Hawaii Chapter to contribute as stakeholders in this effort. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 230, and recommend its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair