Bill Text: HI SB2822 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Energy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to CPN/WAM. [SB2822 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2822-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to energy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
Furthermore, the legislature also finds that, presently, readily available renewable energy is not utilized because of a lack of proximity to other state buildings and facilities. The clean energy generated could provide electricity to state facilities at peak times of operation that are concurrently off-peak times for the residential population. The public utilities commission's failure to open and move a docket on wheeling for state facilities has crippled the State's ability to share and distribute the electricity generated amongst its facilities. The lack of action has also prevented the State from lowering electric bills, which has resulted in substantial emergency payments to utility companies.
The legislature further finds that the production of clean electricity may be encouraged if certain government agencies, as sellers of clean electricity, are authorized to engage in intragovernmental wheeling, or the transmittal of electric power from one power generation to another facility over the existing transmission lines of a third-party electric public utility.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to authorize the department of accounting and general services to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facilities from renewable energy sources, subject to certain conditions determined by the public utilities commission.
SECTION 2. Chapter 269, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part I to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§269- Wheeling;
renewable energy; department of accounting and general services; rules. (a) No later than August 1, 2024,
the public utilities commission shall open a docket and set a procedural
schedule to determine whether and by which rules the department of accounting
and general services may engage in wheeling of electricity produced at its own
facilities from renewable sources.
(b) The docket shall determine:
(1) The rate of compensation to an
electric company acting as a transmitter; and
(2) Other terms to ensure wheeling is
done in the public interest, which shall include:
(A) The timely execution of a workforce
and community agreement with all stakeholders who may be economically impacted
or displaced prior to authorization; and
(B) If receiving federal funding wholly
or in part, compliance with the Build America, Buy America Act, P.L. 117-58, section
70901-52 and Executive Order No. 14005, 86 Federal Regulations 7475 (2021).
(c) The public utilities commission shall
implement this section by order or by rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91.
(d) This section shall not apply to a member-owned cooperative.
(e) For the purposes of this section,
"wheeling" means transmitting electric power from point of generation
over the existing transmission lines of a third-party electric public utility."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
PUC; DAGS; Wheeling; Clean Energy
Description:
By 8/1/24, requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules the Department of Accounting and General Services may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by renewable energy sources from their own facilities over existing transmission lines, subject to certain restrictions.
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