Bill Text: HI SB2677 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Energy Efficiency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-15 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Ganaden, Gates, Martinez, Quinlan excused (5). [SB2677 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2677-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 196-6.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) On or after January 1, 2010, no building permit shall be issued for a new single-family dwelling that does not include a solar water heater system that meets the standards established pursuant to section 269-44, unless the chief energy officer of the Hawaii state energy office approves a variance. A variance application shall only be accepted if submitted by an architect or mechanical engineer licensed under chapter 464, who attests that:
(1) Installation is impracticable due to poor
solar resource;
(2) Installation is cost-prohibitive based upon a
life cycle cost-benefit analysis that incorporates the average residential
utility bill and the cost of the new solar water heater system with a life
cycle that does not exceed fifteen years;
(3) A renewable energy technology system, as
defined in section 235-12.5, is substituted for use as the primary energy
source for heating water; or
(4) A demand water heater device approved by [Underwriters
Laboratories, Inc.,] a nationally recognized testing laboratory is
installed; provided that at least one other gas appliance is installed in the
dwelling. For the purposes of this
paragraph, "demand water heater" means a gas-tankless instantaneous
water heater that provides hot water only as it is needed."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 3000.
Report Title:
Demand Water Heater Device; Residential; Variance; Approving Entity
Description:
Requires
that a demand water heater device be approved by any nationally recognized
testing laboratory, rather than just Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., for the
acceptance of a variance application.
Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
