Bill Text: HI SB2671 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Agriculture; Electrical Power Generation; Electric Utilities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-27 - (S) Referred to ENE/WTL, CPN. [SB2671 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2671-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2671
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to modify the renewable portfolio standards to specify that beginning January 1, 2015, a minimum of two per cent of electrical power generation, as measured by kilowatt hours, be met from renewable power generated by facilities that commercially produce food products or biofuels in tandem with the production of electrical power.

     SECTION 2.  Section 269-92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The public utilities commission may establish standards for each utility that prescribe what portion of the renewable portfolio standards shall be met by specific types of renewable energy resources; provided that:

     (1)  Prior to January 1, 2015, at least fifty per cent of the renewable portfolio standards shall be met by electrical energy generated using renewable energy as the source, and after December 31, 2014, the entire renewable portfolio standard shall be met by electrical generation from renewable energy sources;

     (2)  Beginning January 1, 2015, electrical energy savings shall not count toward renewable energy portfolio standards;

     (3)  Where electrical energy is generated or displaced by a combination of renewable and nonrenewable means, the proportion attributable to the renewable means shall be credited as renewable energy; [and]

     (4)  Where fossil and renewable fuels are co-fired in the same generating unit, the unit shall be considered to generate renewable electrical energy (electricity) in direct proportion to the percentage of the total heat input value represented by the heat input value of the renewable fuels[.]; and

     (5)  Beginning January 1, 2015, at least two per cent of net electrical power generation, as measured by kilowatt-hours, shall be met from electrical power generated by facilities that commercially produce biofuels or food, feed, or wood products in tandem with the production of electrical power.  For the purposes of this section, a facility engaged in the commercial production of biofuels is one that produces over five hundred thousand gallons of biofuel per year; a facility engaged in the commercial production of food, feed, or wood products is one that produces over one million pounds of saleable product per year."

     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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	By Request

 

 

Report Title:

Agriculture; Electrical Power Generation; Electric Utilities

 

Description:

Modifies the renewable portfolio standards to require at least two per cent of electrical power generation starting in 2015 be from commercial operations that also produces food or biofuels.

 

 

 

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