THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair

Senator Breene Harimoto, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:

 

HB 1583, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR1522)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCY.

Authorizes the Department of Education to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of a renewable energy system to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency.  Authorizes the Department of Transportation to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of a renewable energy microgrid system to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency at one facility.  Authorizes the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to evaluate the feasibility and cost-benefit of a renewable energy microgrid system to provide backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency.  Requires the Public Utilities Commission to incorporate findings from public agency microgrid evaluations into its microgrid service docket and consider ways to incentivize the installation in public facilities of renewable energy systems that can provide backup power in the event the broader electric grid cannot provide power.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

EDU/EET, CPH/TRS/WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision making meeting only, no oral testimony will be accepted.

 

Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

Click here to submit written testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808)586-6070.

 

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Senator Lorraine R. Inouye

Chair

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair

 

 

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair