STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1191-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2910

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2910, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to identify electric grid and other critical infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for enhancing grid and critical infrastructure resiliency throughout the State.

The Department of Transportation, Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, Distributed Energy Resources Council, Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaii Electric Company, Inc., Maui Electric Company, Ltd., Hawai‘i Electric Light Company, Inc., Tesla, Inc., Hawaii Solar Energy Association, and several individuals supported this measure. The Alliance for Solar Choice opposed this measure. Life of the Land and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing language establishing and appropriating funds for the Homeland Security and Resiliency Council;

(2) Inserting language which, among other things:

(A) Creates a $50,000,000 revolving line of credit sub-fund under the umbrella of the Green Energy Market Securitization Loan Fund for any state agency or department to finance energy efficiency measures;

(B) Establishes a Grid Resiliency Task Force to identify critical infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for enhancing grid resiliency throughout the State;

(C) Establishes a Grid Resiliency Loan Program and Grid Resiliency Special Fund to provide funding for critical infrastructure; and

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

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 S.B. No. 2910, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2910, S.D. 2, 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