Bill Text: HI HCR58 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Utilities Commission; Renewable Energy Scenarios; Integrated Resource Planning

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-26 - (S) Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 680). [HCR58 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR58-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3545

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 58

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 58, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO DIRECT ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO EXAMINE SPECIFIC RENEWABLE ENERGY SCENARIOS IN THE INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING PROCESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Public Utilities Commission to direct electric utilities to examine specific renewable energy strategies in the integrated planning process.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Public Utilities Commission; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Division of Consumer Advocacy; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; and Hawaii BioEnergy, LLC.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure requests the Public Utilities Commission to examine different integrated resource planning strategies and resource options and other energy-focused topics and to direct electric utilities to consider strategies such as geothermal energy, hydrogen and other energy storage technologies, and electricity from waste-to-energy resources.  Your Committee further finds these strategies are important considerations in the integrated resource planning process, which has essentially become an important state energy planning process that is critical to electric utilities' efforts to meet renewable portfolio standards.

 

     Your Committee notes that a clarifying amendment to the title of this measure is needed for consistency with terminology and definitions used in the revised integrated resource planning framework.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by changing its title to refer to "specific renewable energy strategies" instead of "specific renewable energy scenarios".

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 58, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 58, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair