| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Public Utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 9:30 am]
The committee(s) on CPN will hold a public decision making on 02-20-25 9:30AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference. |
| HI | HB338 | Intro
25% | Specifies that adjustments required to compensate for certain unavoidable increases in financing costs, if proven by a producer of nonfossil fuel generated electricity by clear and convincing evidence, are mechanisms for reasonable and appropriate in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB997 | Intro
25% | Grants the Public Utilities Commission the ability to authorize preferential rates for the purchase of renewable energy from facilities that meet certain prevailing wage requirements. Requires public utilities to forward certain requests for preferen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 10:01 am]
The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-18-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1220 | Intro
25% | Requires gas utility companies to submit proposed renewable gas tariffs to the Public Utilities Commission by August 31, 2025. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a renewable gas tariff within six months of receiving a proposed rene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 10:01 am]
The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 02-18-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference. |
| HI | SB1338 | Intro
25% | Renames the Hawaii Renewable Hydrogen Program to the Hawaii Renewable Hydrogen and Long Duration Clean Energy Storage Program (Program). Amends the required activities of the Program, including conducting engineering and economic evaluations of poten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB700 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in collaboration with state departments, to assess the potential and feasibility of developing resilience hubs that can provide emergency services and be open to the general public during times of emergency. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB1656 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to finance the planning, designing, and construction of a water pump storage hydroelectric facility in the Kohala Mountains on Hawaii Island. Requires the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB243 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready home interconnection process. Requires the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator to report to the Legislature on the streamlined grid-ready home interconnection pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB589 | Intro
25% | Authorizes retail wheeling of renewable energy and requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and procedures to implement retail wheeling and microgrid service tariffs. Ensures that fair compensation is provided for solar and ener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB587 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process, including vehicle-to-grid compliance requirements, by 1/1/2026. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge for cost ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB412 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to assess the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each state department facility. Requires state departments to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detaile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB790 | Intro
25% | Establishes an installation goal for customer-sited distributed energy resources in the State. Ensures that fair compensation is provided to distributed energy resources exports as part of grid service programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB342 | Intro
25% | Requires gas utilities to file a proposed initial renewable gas tariff or tariffs with the Public Utilities Commission by August 31, 2025. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to approve or modify a renewable gas tariff within six months of recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1182 | Intro
25% | Grants the Public Utilities Commission the ability to authorize preferential rates for the purchase of renewable energy from facilities that meet certain prevailing wage requirements. Requires public utilities to forward certain requests for preferen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | SB996 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that adjustments linked to premium interest rates for high yield credit are just and reasonable. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to include these incremental adjustments to the rate for electricity generated from nonfossil fuels....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB337 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or conver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | HB340 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish a streamlined grid-ready homes interconnection process. Authorizes the use of the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge for cost recovery of certain expenses of the Hawaii electricity reliabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HI | SB743 | Intro
25% | Grants the Public Utilities Commission the ability to authorize preferential rates for the purchase of renewable energy from facilities that meet certain prevailing wage requirements. Requires public utilities to forward certain requests for preferen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1014 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt certain federal regulations as they existed on 1/1/2025, that it deems to be in the public interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB1066 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii renewable hydrogen program and hydrogen investment capital special fund to include a broader focus on long duration clean energy storage. Transfers responsibility for the program to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HI | SB445 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates moneys for the Public Utilities Commission to establish standards requiring each electric utility company to remove from the rate base a commensurate amount of costs related to fossil fuel resources when adding new or conver...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | HB351 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii renewable hydrogen program and hydrogen investment capital special fund to include a broader focus on long duration clean energy storage. Transfers responsibility for the program to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
