Bill Text: HI SB1675 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: General Excise Tax; Exemption; Nonprofit Organizations
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-17 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Awana, Chang, Manahan, Sagum, Souki excused (5). [SB1675 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1675-Amended.html
Report Title:
Net Energy Metering; Renewable Energy; Electricity; Public Utilities Commission
Description:
Permits existing net metered customers to remain with net metering program once alternative credits or compensation mechanisms are created. Prohibits electric utility from unreasonably denying, burdening, or delaying net energy metering contracts. (SD2)
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the State must improve and develop new types of renewable energy to reduce dependence on imported oil to generate electricity. Accordingly, the legislature enacted the net energy metering law as an effective incentive for the rapid development of renewable electricity self-generation at low cost to the public.
The purpose of this Act is to facilitate renewable energy development in Hawaii and reduce the State's dependence on imported oil by permitting existing net metered customers to remain with the program once a feed-in tariff or other tariff structures are implemented.
SECTION 2. Chapter 269, part VI, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending section 269-101 to read:
"§269-101 Definitions. As used in this part:
"Eligible customer-generator" means a metered residential or commercial customer, including a government entity, of an electric utility who owns and operates, leases, or purchases electricity from a solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating facility, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, that is:
(1) Located on the customer's premises;
(2) Operated in parallel with the utility's transmission and distribution facilities;
(3) In conformance with the utility's interconnection requirements; and
(4) Intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's own electrical requirements.
"Net energy metering" means measuring the difference between the electricity supplied through the electric grid and the electricity generated by an eligible customer-generator and fed back to the electric grid over a monthly billing period; provided that:
(1) Net energy metering shall be accomplished using a single meter capable of registering the flow of electricity in two directions;
(2) An additional meter or meters to monitor the flow of electricity in each direction may be installed with the consent of the customer-generator, at the expense of the electric utility, and the additional metering shall be used only to provide the information necessary to accurately bill or credit the customer-generator, or to collect solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating system performance information for research purposes;
(3) If the existing electrical meter of an eligible customer-generator is not capable of measuring the flow of electricity in two directions, the electric utility shall be responsible for all expenses involved in purchasing and installing a meter that is able to measure electricity flow in two directions;
(4) If an additional meter or meters are installed,
the net energy metering calculation shall yield a result identical to that of a
single meter; [and]
(5) An eligible customer-generator who already owns
an existing solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating
facility, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, is
eligible to receive net energy metering service in accordance with this part[.];
and
(6) The electric utility shall not unreasonably deny, burden, or delay an eligible customer-generator's request to participate in net energy metering."
2. By amending section 269-110 to read:
"§269-110 [Termination by eligible
customer-generators.] Eligible customer-generators; termination;
alternative credits or compensation mechanisms. (a) If an
eligible customer-generator terminates the customer relationship with the
electric utility, the electric utility shall reconcile the eligible customer‑generator's
consumption and production of electricity, including any unused credits for
excess electricity from the eligible customer‑generator carried over from
prior months, for the period following the last twelve-month reconciliation
period to the date of termination of the relationship, according to the
requirements set forth in this part.
(b) If the public utilities commission, at any time, establishes alternative mechanisms for crediting or otherwise compensating eligible customer-generators for exported power, eligible customer-generators with existing net energy metering contracts shall have the option of maintaining these existing net energy metering contracts rather than converting to new alternative credits or compensation mechanisms."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
