Bill Text: HI SB2511 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Public Utilities Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-19 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Kong, Sayama excused (4). [SB2511 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2511-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 269-16.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) In developing performance incentive and penalty mechanisms, the public utilities commission's review of electric utility performance shall consider, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) The economic incentives and cost-recovery mechanisms described in section 269-6(e);
(2) Volatility and
affordability of electric rates and customer electric bills;
(3) Electric service
reliability;
(4) Customer engagement
and satisfaction, including customer options for managing electricity costs;
(5) Access to utility
system information, including but not limited to public access to electric
system planning data and aggregated customer energy use data and individual
access to granular information about an individual customer's own energy use
data;
(6) Rapid integration of
renewable energy sources, including quality interconnection of customer-sited
resources; [and]
(7) Timely execution of
competitive procurement, third‑party interconnection, and other business
processes[.]; and
(8) The short-term and long-term retention and creation of local jobs."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2040.
Report Title:
PUC; Electric Utilities Performance Reviews; Local Jobs
Description:
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider the short-term and long-term retention and creation of local jobs in its review of electric utility performance. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
