STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1570-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.C.R. No. 179
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and
Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred S.C.R.
No. 179, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PUBLIC
     UTILITIES COMMISSION TO RESOLVE AVOIDED COST ISSUES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to support the
use of renewable energy in the state by requesting the Public
Utilities Commission (PUC) to:

     (1)  Resolve avoided cost issues by completing Docket No.
          7310, short-run avoided energy costs for as-available
          resources; and

     (2)  Issue a decision and order.

     The Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance, Life of the Land,
Malama o Manoa, and an individual testified in support of this
concurrent resolution.  The PUC and Hawaiian Electric Company,
and its subsidiary utilities, Maui Electric Company and Hawaii
Electric Light Company, offered comments.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its
substance and inserting provisions found in H.C.R. No. 178, H.D.
1, a companion to this measure, which your Committees reported
out on April 3, 2000.  As amended, this measure:

 
 
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     (1)  Deletes certain references to the Hawaii Administrative
          Rules in the first BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED clause
          relating to the implementation of a plan to calculate
          avoided cost within 120 days from the filing of a
          petition by a qualifying facility;

     (2)  Changes the title to read:  "SENATE CONCURRENT
          RESOLUTION REQUIRING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO
          RESOLVE AVOIDED COST ISSUES"; and

     (3)  Makes technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purposes of clarity.
 
     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Consumer
Protection and Commerce that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 179,
S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to
the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R.
No. 179, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection and
                                   Consumer Protection and
                                   Commerce,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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RON MENOR, Chair                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair