Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to encourage government agencies to produce renewable energy by allowing them to engage in "wheeling," a process in which electricity generated by a non-utility producer is transmitted over electric public utility transmission lines to another location.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Division of Consumer Advocacy of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Public Utilities Commission (PUC), County of Maui, several members of the Maui County Council, Office of Economic Development of the County of Kauai, PowerLight Corporation, and Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance testified in support of this bill. Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 2.