STAND. COM. REP. NO.2211
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: S.B. No. 2179
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water, Land, Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2179 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purposes of this measure are to add a new part to Chapter 196, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to encourage the evaluation and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable technologies, and to repeal current provisions that would be in conflict with the new part.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Covanta Energy Group, Sierra Club Hawai`i Chapter, and one individual.
Your Committees find that this measure is modeled after Presidential Executive Order 13123, and would ensure that state government leads by example in managing energy use. Your Committees have heard that the program has been very effective at the federal level by advancing energy efficiency and water conservation, as well as improving utility management decisions at federal sites.
Your Committees are encouraged by the broad support for the intent of this measure. Your Committees have amended this measure to:
(1) Add "waste-to-energy" in the definition of "renewable energy";
(2) Delete the designation of synthetic natural gas as a non-petroleum energy source;
(3) Add language to address financing mechanisms and to retain pertinent bidding requirements;
(4) Modify the language that mandates a specific combination of energy technologies in implementation of energy reduction systems; and
(5) Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2179, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,
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____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair |
____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
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