Report Title:
Renewable Energy; Customer-generator; Compensation for Electricity Generated
Description:
Provides incentives for the greater use of renewable energy technologies in Hawaii by allowing eligible customer-generators to gain compensation for electricity generated in surplus of their actual total usage. Requires electric utility to pay a customer-generator up to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour or up to $2,000 in a calendar year.
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2558 |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to renewable energy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the use of renewable energy resources generated from local sources such as solar and wind power benefit the State by providing nonpolluting sources of electricity generation, and by the creation of jobs for local industries that develop and sell renewable energy products and technologies.
The purpose of this Act is to provide incentives for the greater use of renewable energy technologies in Hawaii by allowing eligible customer-generators to gain compensation for net kilowatt-hour generation over their actual usage.
SECTION 2. Section 269-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§269-108 Net electricity producers;
excess electricity credits and credit carry over. At the end of each
monthly billing period, where the electricity generated by the eligible
customer-generator during the month exceeds the electricity supplied by the
electric utility during that same period, the eligible customer-generator is a
net electricity producer and the electric utility shall retain any excess
kilowatt-hours generated during the prior monthly billing period; provided that
the excess electricity generated by the customer-generator, if any, in each
monthly billing period shall be carried over to the next month as a monetary
value to the credit of the eligible customer-generator, which credit may
accumulate and be used to offset the compensation owed the electric utility for
the eligible customer-generator's net kilowatt-hour consumption for succeeding
months within each twelve-month period; provided further that the electric
utility shall reconcile the eligible customer-generator's electricity
production and consumption for each twelve-month period as set forth in section
269-106. [The eligible customer-generator shall not be owed any
compensation for excess kilowatt-hours unless the electric utility enters into
a purchase agreement with the eligible customer-generator for those excess
kilowatt-hours.]"
SECTION 3. Section 269-106, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) Credits for excess electricity from
the eligible customer-generator that remain unused after each twelve-month
reconciliation period may not be carried over to the next twelve-month period[.];
provided that notwithstanding any other section in this part, the electric
utility shall pay the eligible customer-generator for credits for excess
electricity from the eligible customer-generator that remain unused after each
twelve-month reconciliation period at the wholesale rate of the rate class to
which the eligible customer-generator is normally assigned; provided that the
amount paid by the electric utility to a customer-generator shall not exceed 15
cents per kilowatt-hour or $2,000 per calendar year."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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