Bill Text: HI SB2858 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Retail Wheeling; Public Utilities; Intra-Governmental
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-11 - (H) The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Morita, Coffman, Cabanilla, Chang, Har, Herkes, Ito, Luke, Sagum; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Thielen; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Chong, C. Lee, Ching. [SB2858 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2858-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2232
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2858
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2858 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RETAIL WHEELING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to require the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and procedures related to retail wheeling to enable independent power producers to sell electricity directly to end users.
Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by six organizations. One state agency submitted comments, and testimony in opposition was submitted by one organization. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee recognizes the concerns of the Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. with regard to the complex issues raised by retail wheeling. However, in the face of a future increased demand with the rise in the number of electric cars, your Committee believes that unbundling electrical utility services is necessary to provide increased competition in energy markets and improved service. Your Committee finds that by narrowing the scope of the measure to intra-governmental electrical utility services, many of the issues can be resolved on a smaller scale. In the future, your Committee hopes that retail wheeling will be available for all electric customers.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Narrowing the scope of the measure to enable independent renewable energy producers operating on state lands to sell electricity directly to state government entities located on the same island as the producer;
(2) Amending the purpose section to reflect the changes; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2858, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2858, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,
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____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair |
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