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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
2331 |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
S.D. 2 |
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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 a strong agricultural sector is essential for Hawaii's food security and can be an integral part of Hawaii's energy security. Long-term contracts for sales of electricity can improve agricultural producers' economic position while contributing to Hawaii's energy diversification.
The purpose of this Act is to modify the renewable portfolio standards to specify that beginning January 1, 2015, a minimum of two per cent of electrical power generation, as measured by kilowatt hours, be met from renewable power generated by facilities that commercially produce food products or biofuels in tandem with the production of electrical power.
SECTION 2. Section 269-92, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The public utilities commission may establish standards for each utility that prescribe what portion of the renewable portfolio standards shall be met by specific types of renewable energy resources; provided that:
(1) Prior to January 1, 2015, at least fifty per cent
of the renewable portfolio standards shall be met by electrical energy
generated using renewable energy as the source[,] and after December 31,
2014, the entire renewable portfolio standard shall be met by electrical
generation from renewable energy sources;
(2) Beginning January 1, 2015, electrical energy savings shall not count toward renewable energy portfolio standards;
(3) Where electrical energy is generated or displaced
by a combination of renewable and nonrenewable means, the proportion
attributable to the renewable means shall be credited as renewable energy; [and]
(4) Where fossil and renewable fuels are co-fired in
the same generating unit, the unit shall be considered to generate renewable
electrical energy [(]or renewable electricity[)] in direct
proportion to the percentage of the total heat input value represented by the
heat input value of the renewable fuels[.]; and
(5) Beginning January 1, 2015, at least two per cent of net electrical power generation, as measured by kilowatt-hours, shall be met from electrical power generated by facilities that commercially produce biofuels or food, feed, or wood products in tandem with the production of electrical power; provided that if the electric utility company is unable to meet the two per cent energy requirement due to an insufficient supply of energy being produced by facilities that commercially produce biofuels or food, feed, or wood products in tandem with the production of electrical power, the electric utility company shall not be required to meet the two per cent energy requirement until the supply of energy produced by facilities that commercially produce biofuels or food, feed, or wood products in tandem with the production of electrical power is sufficient to meet two per cent of net electrical power generation requirement. For the purposes of this paragraph, a facility engaged in the commercial production of biofuels is one that produces over five hundred thousand gallons of biofuel per year; and a facility engaged in the commercial production of food, feed, or wood products is one that produces over fifty thousand pounds of saleable product per year."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Renewable Energy; Agriculture
Description:
Requires that by January 1, 2015, a minimum of two per cent of each utility's net electrical power generation be from biofuel or from agricultural producers. (SD2)
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