Bill Text: HI SB2510 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Renewable Energy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2022-06-27 - Notice of intent to veto (Gov. Msg. No. 1216) [SB2510 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2510-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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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. Section 226-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) To achieve the potential growth and innovative
activity objective, it shall be the policy of [this] the State
to:
(1) Facilitate investment and employment growth in economic activities that have the potential to expand and diversify Hawaii's economy, including but not limited to diversified agriculture, aquaculture, renewable energy development, creative media, health care, and science and technology-based sectors;
(2) Facilitate investment in innovative activity that may pose risks or be less labor-intensive than other traditional business activity, but, if successful, will generate revenue in Hawaii through the export of services or products or substitution of imported services or products;
(3) Encourage entrepreneurship in innovative activity by academic researchers and instructors who may not have the background, skill, or initial inclination to commercially exploit their discoveries or achievements;
(4) Recognize that innovative activity is not exclusively dependent upon individuals with advanced formal education, but that many self-taught, motivated individuals are able, willing, sufficiently knowledgeable, and equipped with the attitude necessary to undertake innovative activity;
(5) Increase the opportunities for investors in innovative activity and talent engaged in innovative activity to personally meet and interact at cultural, art, entertainment, culinary, athletic, or visitor-oriented events without a business focus;
(6) Expand Hawaii's capacity to attract and service international programs, technologies, and activities that generate employment for Hawaii's people;
(7) Enhance and promote
Hawaii's role as a center for international relations[,]; trade[,];
finance[,]; services[,]; technology[,];
education[,]; demonstration projects for innovations in sustainability,
renewable energy innovation and intellectual property; culture[,];
and the arts;
(8) Accelerate
research and development of new energy‑related industries based on wind,
solar, ocean, underground resources, [and] solid waste[;], and
firm renewable energy;
(9) Promote Hawaii's geographic, environmental, social, and technological advantages to attract new or innovative economic activities into the State;
(10) Provide public incentives and encourage private initiative to attract new or innovative industries that best support Hawaii's social, economic, physical, and environmental objectives;
(11) Increase research and the development of ocean-related economic activities such as mining, food production, energy production, and scientific research;
(12) Develop, promote, and support research and educational and training programs that will enhance Hawaii's ability to attract and develop economic activities of benefit to Hawaii;
(13) Foster a broader public recognition and understanding of the potential benefits of new or innovative growth‑oriented industry in Hawaii;
(14) Encourage the development and implementation of joint federal and state initiatives to attract federal programs and projects that will support Hawaii's social, economic, physical, and environmental objectives;
(15) Increase research and development of businesses and services in the telecommunications and information industries;
(16) Foster the research and development of nonfossil fuel and energy efficient modes of transportation; and
(17) Recognize and promote health care and health care information technology as growth industries."
SECTION 2. Section 226-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§226-18 Objectives and policies for facility systems--energy. (a) Planning for the State's facility systems with regard to energy shall be directed toward the achievement of the following objectives, giving due consideration to all:
(1) Dependable, efficient, and economical statewide energy systems capable of supporting the needs of the people;
(2) Increased energy security and self-sufficiency through the reduction and ultimate elimination of Hawaii's dependence on imported fuels for electrical generation and ground transportation;
(3) Greater diversification of energy generation and reduction of reliance on imports in the face of threats to Hawaii's energy supplies and systems;
(4) Reduction,
avoidance, or sequestration of greenhouse gas emissions from energy supply and
use[; and], including but not limited to ensuring that all new utility
scale electricity generation projects shall be renewable;
(5) Utility models
that make the social and financial interests of Hawaii's utility customers a
priority[.];
(6) Balancing of grid
resources to achieve a reliable, affordable, equitable, resilient, low greenhouse
gas emissions energy system that reduces reliance on imports and to achieve the
one hundred per cent renewable portfolio standard and zero-emissions clean economy
target;
(7) Reliable replacement
of fossil fuel generation with grid resources that meet the objectives of paragraph
(6);
(8) Achieving the appropriate
balance of firm renewable energy generation with other grid resources, recognizing
that firm renewable generation is a grid resource that can contribute to achieving
the objectives of paragraph (6), and recognizing that the appropriate balance of
grid resources will vary by county and should be considered by the appropriate state
energy planning processes; and
(9) Fossil fuel generation
shall be prohibited after December 31, 2045, except in cases of emergencies
or natural disaster, situations where unavailability of renewable fuels would require
limited use of fossil fuels to maintain grid reliability, and events or circumstances
that are outside of an electric utility company's reasonable control.
(b)
To achieve the energy objectives, it shall be the policy of [this]
the State to ensure the short- and long‑term provision of adequate,
reasonably priced, reliable, equitable, and dependable energy services
to accommodate demand[.] and reduce reliance on imports, and that electrical
energy services shall be renewable.
(c)
To further achieve the energy objectives, it shall be the policy of [this]
the State to:
(1) Support research and development as well as promote the use of a diversified portfolio of renewable energy sources;
(2) Ensure that the combination of energy supplies and energy-saving systems is sufficient to support the demands of growth;
(3) Base decisions of
least-cost supply-side and demand‑side energy resource options on a
comparison of their total costs and benefits when a least-cost is determined by
a reasonably comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative accounting of their
long-term, direct and indirect economic, environmental, social, cultural, and
public health costs and benefits[;], including accounting for the benefits
of renewable energy that reduces the consumption of fossil fuels;
(4) Promote all cost-effective conservation of power and fuel supplies through measures, including:
(A) Development of cost-effective demand-side management programs;
(B) Education;
(C) Adoption of energy-efficient practices and technologies; and
(D) Increasing energy efficiency
and decreasing energy use in public infrastructure;
(5) Ensure, to the
extent that new supply-side resources are needed, that the development or
expansion of energy systems uses the least-cost energy supply [option] grid
resources options that are not fossil fuels, and maximizes efficient technologies;
(6) Support research, development, demonstration, and use of energy efficiency, load management, and other demand-side management programs, practices, and technologies;
(7) Promote alternate fuels and transportation energy efficiency;
(8) Support actions that reduce, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gases in utility, transportation, and industrial sector applications;
(9) Support actions that reduce, avoid, or sequester Hawaii's greenhouse gas emissions through agriculture and forestry initiatives;
(10) Provide priority handling and processing for all state and county permits required for renewable energy projects;
(11) Ensure that
liquefied natural gas is used only as a cost-effective transitional, limited-term
replacement of petroleum for electricity generation and does not impede the
development and use of other cost-effective renewable energy sources; [and]
(12) Promote the
development of indigenous geothermal energy resources that are located on public
trust land as an affordable and reliable source of firm power for Hawaii[.];
(13) Ensure that the
development or expansion of energy systems recognizes and emphasizes the need to
balance grid resources to achieve a reliable, affordable, equitable, renewable,
low greenhouse gas emissions energy system that reduces reliance on imports; and
(14) Ensure that the
development or expansion of energy systems recognizes and emphasizes the need to
ensure grid reliability by balancing grid resources to achieve a reliable, affordable,
equitable, low greenhouse gas emissions energy system that reduces reliance on imports.
(d) As used in this section:
"Firm renewable energy"
means renewable energy that is available on the demand of the energy system operator
consistent with the terms of an approved power purchase agreement.
"Grid resources" means all
demand- and supply-side options to meet grid requirements, including but not limited
to firm and intermittent energy generation, energy storage, demand-response, efficiency,
and customer-sited resources.
"Intermittent renewable generation" means the generation of renewable energy that does not qualify as firm renewable energy."
SECTION 3. Section 226-103, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending subsection (a) to read:
"(a) Priority guidelines to stimulate economic growth and encourage business expansion and development to provide needed jobs for Hawaii's people and achieve a stable and diversified economy:
(1) Seek a variety of means to increase the availability of investment capital for new and expanding enterprises.
(A) Encourage
investments [which:] that:
(i) Reflect long-term commitments to the State;
(ii) Rely on economic linkages within the local economy;
(iii) Diversify the economy;
(iv) Reinvest in the local economy;
(v) Are sensitive to community needs and priorities; and
(vi) Demonstrate a commitment to provide management opportunities to Hawaii residents; and
(B) Encourage investments in innovative activities that have a nexus to the State, such as:
(i) Present or former residents acting as entrepreneurs or principals;
(ii) Academic support from an institution of higher education in Hawaii;
(iii) Investment interest from Hawaii residents;
(iv) Resources unique to Hawaii that are required for innovative activity; and
(v) Complementary or supportive industries or government programs or projects.
(2) Encourage the expansion of technological research to assist industry development and support the development and commercialization of technological advancements.
(3) Improve the quality, accessibility, and range of services provided by government to business, including data and reference services and assistance in complying with governmental regulations.
(4) Seek to ensure that state business tax and labor laws and administrative policies are equitable, rational, and predictable.
(5) Streamline the processes for building and development permit and review and telecommunication infrastructure installation approval and eliminate or consolidate other burdensome or duplicative governmental requirements imposed on business, where scientific evidence indicates that public health, safety, and welfare would not be adversely affected.
(6) Encourage the formation of cooperatives and other favorable marketing or distribution arrangements at the regional or local level to assist Hawaii's small‑scale producers, manufacturers, and distributors.
(7) Continue to seek legislation to protect Hawaii from transportation interruptions between Hawaii and the continental United States.
(8) Provide public
incentives and encourage private initiative to develop and attract industries [which]
that promise long-term growth potentials and [which] that
have the following characteristics:
(A) An industry that can take advantage of Hawaii's unique location and available physical and human resources.
(B) A clean industry that would have minimal adverse effects on Hawaii's environment.
(C) An industry that is willing to hire and train Hawaii's people to meet the industry's labor needs at all levels of employment.
(D) An industry that would provide reasonable income and steady employment.
(9) Support and encourage, through educational and technical assistance programs and other means, expanded opportunities for employee ownership and participation in Hawaii business.
(10) Enhance the quality of Hawaii's labor force and develop and maintain career opportunities for Hawaii's people through the following actions:
(A) Expand vocational training in diversified agriculture, aquaculture, information industry, renewable energy and related industries, and other areas where growth is desired and feasible.
(B) Encourage more effective career counseling and guidance in high schools and post-secondary institutions to inform students of present and future career opportunities.
(C) Allocate educational resources to career areas where high employment is expected and where growth of new industries is desired.
(D) Promote career opportunities in all industries for Hawaii's people by encouraging firms doing business in the State to hire residents.
(E) Promote greater public and private sector cooperation in determining industrial training needs and in developing relevant curricula and on-the-job training opportunities.
(F) Provide retraining programs and other support services to assist entry of displaced workers into alternative employment."
2. By amending subsection (f) to read:
"(f) Priority guidelines for energy use and development:
(1) Encourage the development, demonstration, and commercialization of renewable energy sources.
(2) Initiate, maintain, and improve energy conservation programs aimed at reducing energy waste and increasing public awareness of the need to conserve energy.
(3) Provide incentives to encourage the use of energy conserving technology in residential, industrial, and other buildings.
(4) Encourage the development and use of energy conserving and cost-efficient transportation systems.
(5) Provide incentives to encourage the development of grid resources to replace fossil fuel generation."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; Hawaii State Planning Act; Renewable Energy; Grid Resources Balancing
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