Bill Text: HI HCR224 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-13 - (S) Referred to ENE/EDT. [HCR224 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HCR224-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	224
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REAFFIRMING THE SUPPORT OF THE HAWAII STATE LEGISLATURE FOR THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII authority AS AN INCUBATOR FOR RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF ENERGY, HIGH TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE OF HAWAII.

 

 

     WHEREAS, in 1974 the Legislature passed Act 235, Session Laws of Hawaii 1974, that established the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute to coordinate the development of non-polluting natural energy sources for Hawaii including "geothermal, solar radiation, ocean temperature differential, wind, waves, and currents", and Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 1974, to establish a state natural energy laboratory on three hundred twenty-two acres of land at Keahole Point on the Big Island of Hawaii; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 1984 the Legislature passed Act 59, Session Laws of Hawaii 1984, that established a corporate entity known as the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii for the purpose of "research, development, demonstration, and commericialization of natural energy resources", allowing the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii to host new tenant business ventures attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 1990 the Legislature passed Act 224, Session Laws of Hawaii 1990, which combined the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and the Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology Park into one agency, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority; and in 1999 the Legislature expanded the activities of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to include other business activities that could enhance economic development and generate additional revenues to support the growing research park; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority currently houses forty-three tenants with five additional companies applying for leases; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority has maintained economic self-sufficiency since 2006 and its tenants conduct research, development, and commercialization activities in ocean thermal energy conversion, solar thermal concentration, wind energy, deep sea water technologies, and creating biofuels from algae; and

 

     WHEREAS, despite functioning with half of the staff that it employed fifteen years ago, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority has received international acclaim for its unique permitted offshore research corridor; and

 

     WHEREAS, in addition to its forty-three tenants that employ over three hundred people with over $200,000,000 in private investments, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority has embarked on a unique venture involving a team of fifteen researchers from Old Dominion University, Georgia Tech University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the United States Geological Survey, and two German research groups, the Max Planck Institute and Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, to isolate and study dissolved organic matter from both the surface and deep waters at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority in order to better characterize this major global carbon pool and its role on global climate change and marine ecology; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the Senate concurring, that the Legislature reaffirms its support for the activities of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority as an incubator for research and commercialization of energy, high technology, and economic development in the State; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, and the Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer, and members of the Board of Directors of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority