Bill Text: HI SB2836 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Net Energy Metering
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-04 - (S) The committee on ENE deferred the measure. [SB2836 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2836-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to net energy metering.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 269-101.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§269-101.5[]]
Maximum capacity of eligible customer-generator. The eligible
customer-generator shall have a capacity of not more than [fifty] one
hundred kilowatts; provided that the public utilities commission may increase
the maximum allowable capacity that eligible customer-generators may have to an
amount greater than [fifty] one hundred kilowatts by rule or
order."
SECTION 2. Section 269-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Every electric utility shall develop
a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering and shall make
this contract available to eligible customer-generators, upon request, on a
first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating
capacity produced by eligible customer-generators equals [.5] three
per cent of the electric utility's system peak demand[;] or fifteen
per cent of peak circuit demand for all distribution-level circuits of twelve
kilovolts or lower; provided that [the]:
(1) The public utilities commission may
modify, by rule or order, the total rated generating capacity produced by
eligible customer-generators; [provided further that the]; and
(2) The public utilities commission shall ensure that a percentage of the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators shall be reserved for electricity produced by eligible residential or small commercial customer-generators.
The public utilities commission may define, by rule or order, the maximum capacity for eligible residential or small commercial customer-generators. Notwithstanding the generating capacity requirements of this subsection, the public utilities commission may evaluate, on an island-by-island basis, the applicability of the generating capacity requirements of this subsection and, in its discretion, may exempt an island or a utility grid system from the generating capacity requirements."
SECTION 3. Section 269-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§269-104 Additional
customer-generators. Notwithstanding section 269-102, an electric utility
is not obligated to provide net energy metering to additional
customer-generators in its service area when the combined total peak generating
capacity of all eligible customer-generators served by all the electric
utilities in that service area furnishing net energy metering to eligible
customer-generators equals [.5] three per cent of the system peak
demand of those electric utilities[;] or fifteen per cent of peak
circuit demand for all distribution-level circuits of twelve kilovolts or
lower; provided that the public utilities commission may increase, by rule
or order, the allowable percentage of the electric utility's system peak demand
produced from eligible customer-generators in the electric utility's service
area, whereupon the electric utility will be obligated to provide net energy
metering to additional eligible customer-generators in that service area up to
the increased percentage amount."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Net Energy Metering
Description:
Increases the maximum allowable generating capacity of an eligible customer-generator from 50 kilowatts to 100 kilowatts. Increases the total allowable rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators from 0.5% to 3% of a utility's peak demand or 15% of peak circuit demand for all distribution-level circuits of 12kV or lower.
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