Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1714 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to designate seawater air conditioning (SWAC) as a renewable energy, require SWAC systems to be used in state facilities where feasible, and require construction bids for state facilities to include SWAC technology where feasible.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs offered comments.

Your Committees find that SWAC technology is a promising source of renewable energy that can efficiently provide air conditioning and thus reduce energy costs. Your Committees also find that the State should be proactive in adopting this renewable energy technology for its buildings where feasible.

Your Committees have amended the measure by deleting reference to providing a preference to bidders on state projects that incorporate SWAC technologies into their proposals, since bidders will be required to incorporate SWAC district cooling in all bidding documents for state facilities where it is feasible and available.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1714, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1714, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.