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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Phasing Out Fossil Fuels. [HB-2153]
Requires electric utility companies to have a greenhouse gas neutral electricity portfolio by 12/31/2029. Requires the public utilities commission to evaluate the progress of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality and impose penalties for failure to meet the portfolio standard.
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Relating To The Public Utilities Commission. [SB-2733]
Establishes an intervenor compensation program to provide compensation to intervenors who make a substantial contribution to a Public Utilities Commission proceeding that produces a positive result or savings for consumers. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Related To Renewable Energy. [SB-2749]
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to study and recommend how to implement a smart imports program in Hawaii. Requires electric utilities to offer excess electricity to consumers during daylight hours at cost for any legal purpose beginning 1/1/2022.
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Energy. [HB-1855]
Requires electric utilities to offer smart imports, or excess electricity, to consumers beginning 1/1/2022. Requires PUC to direct the State's electric utilities to study and recommend how to implement a smart imports program in Hawaii by 1/1/2022 and how to enable excess generation from utility scale renewable projects to be offered for sale. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Planning. [SB-1054]
Requires the State and counties to incorporate predictions of sea level rise and other climate change hazards and mitigation opportunities into applicable plans, strategies, and mapping. Requires the Public Utilities Commission, and any public utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, to consider the findings in the Hawaii Sea Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report. Encourages each county to participate in the community rating system developed by the National Flood Insurance Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Coastal Planning. [HB-765]
Requires incorporation of sea level rise projections in all new plans and updates to existing state plans generated under the Hawaii State Planning Act and the plans of the Public Utilities Commission. Appropriates funds for the facilitation of stakeholder communications and public engagement related to environmental protection, clean waters, ecosystem preservation and restoration, and community and cultural consideration of the Ala Wai watershed and surrounding areas. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Electric Grid Resiliency. [HB-1583]
Authorizes the Department of Education to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of establishing and implementing a pilot microgrid to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of a renewable energy microgrid system to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency at one facility. Authorizes the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to establish a microgrid demonstration
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Expenses Of Neighbor Island Resident Public Utilities Commissioners. [HB-554]
Requires payment of travel expenses and a $225 per diem allowance to Public Utilities Commission members who are residents of a county other than the City and County of Honolulu for travel authorized by the PUC. (HB554 HD1)
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To The Salary Of The Public Utilities Commissioners. [SB-1329]
Aligns the salary of the Public Utilities Commission chair with the highest pay tier of the First Deputy Attorney General. Aligns the salary of the other Public Utilities Commission commissioners with the lowest pay tier of the First Deputy Attorney General. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Preferential Electricity Rates For Protected Agriculture. [SB-389]
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish preferential electricity rates for agricultural activities that utilize protected agriculture to produce fruits or vegetables for distribution.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Requesting That The Public Utilities Commission Provide A Status Report On Docket No. 2013-0141, Relating To The Development Of Performance Incentive Mechanisms. [HCR-172]
Requesting That The Public Utilities Commission Provide A Status Report On Docket No. 2013-0141, Relating To The Development Of Performance Incentive Mechanisms.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Green Infrastructure. [HB-1593]
Establishes the Clean Energy Savings Jump Start Program and Clean Energy Savings Jump Start Fund. Establishes the Energy Storage System Rebate Program as a three-year pilot program and requires the Green Infrastructure Authority to submit annual reports to the legislature on the program's progress and activities. Deletes the Public Utilities Commission's approval authority relative to the Green Infrastructure Loan Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/28/2081. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Public Utilities. [HB-1219]
Authorizes the PUC, during its ratemaking procedures, to set a utility's fair return at not more than 5%.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii Water Carrier Act. [SB-1048]
Clarifies that the public utilities commission may make a finding of public convenience and necessity and may issue a certificate regardless of whether the evidence in the record indicates that the issuance of the certificate would diminish an existing water carrier's ability to realize its allowed rate of return or if the certificate would allow an applicant to serve only high-margin or high-profit ports or lines of service that are currently served by an existing carrier. Effective 7/1/18.