STAND. COM. REP. NO. 147-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2110

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2110 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RESILIENCY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage and facilitate the development and use of microgrids by requiring that the Public Utilities Commission establish a microgrid services tariff.

The Department of Research and Development of the County of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company, Maui Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Distributed Energy Resources Council of Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, The Alliance for Solar Choice, Life of the Land, 350Hawaii.org, Blue Planet Foundation, We Are One, Inc., and many concerned individuals supported this measure. The Division of Consumer Advocacy of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the Public Utilities Commission to consider the actions taken to establish and deploy microgrids in Puerto Rico following the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season and what the State can do to address a potential similar local disaster in the future.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2110, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2110, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair