STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1702-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2604

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2604, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A MICROGRID PILOT PROJECT FOR SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to implement an Off-grid Microgrid Pilot Project at a school of the Department's choice through the Ka Hei Program, an educational-enrichment and comprehensive energy and sustainability program within the Department.

The Department of Education supported this measure.  The Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui Electric Company, and Hawaii Electric Light Company provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2604, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2604, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair