CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.169
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 173
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 173, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this bill is to lessen Hawaii's dependence on imported oil by encouraging the greater use of renewable energy by:
(1) Establishing goals for electric utility companies to include a minimum percentage of renewable energy resources or energy efficiency programs within an overall resource portfolio; and
(2) Enabling qualified customer-generators to utilize net energy metering and allow for monthly billing and an annual reconciliation period.
Your Committee on Conference has made several amendments to the bill, including:
(1) Establishing intermediate renewable energy standards beginning in 2003 to 2010;
(2) Amending the definition of "renewable energy" to include energy efficiency savings from solar and heat pumps;
(3) Deleting any references to demand-side management and energy efficiency;
(4) Changing the reconciliation period for net energy metering from annually to monthly;
(5) Changing the net metering capacity to .5% of the system demand;
(6) Calculating the peak percentage total using combined total peak generating capacity of all eligible customer-generators; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of consistency, clarity, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 173, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 173, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
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____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
____________________________ HERMINA M. MORITA, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ RON MENOR, Co-Chair |
____________________________ KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ SCOTT K. SAIKI, Co-Chair |