Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 3161, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to adopt a broad approach to lessening the State's dependence on fossil fuels and moving the State towards greater energy self-sufficiency.

Specifically, this measure:

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the Division of Consumer Advocacy, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Hawaiian Electric Company; Maui Electric Company; Hawaii Electric Light Company; Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning LLC; Hawaii Energy Policy Forum; Hawaii Renewable Energy Alliance; Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; and Rocky Mountain Institute. Oral comments were presented to your Committee by Pacific Biodiesel.

Your Committee finds that it is in the State's interest to encourage the use of renewable fuels and support the development of renewable energy.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, non-substantive amendment.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3161, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3161, S.D. 2.