STAND. COM. REP. NO. 367

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1051

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1051 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY-EFFICIENCY PORTFOLIO STANDARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Extend the State's deadline to achieve its energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and update the standards;

(2) Require the Public Utilities Commission to establish additional interim standards for electricity use reduction to be achieved by 2035 and 2040; and

(3) Authorize the Public Utilities Commission to adjust the 2030 and 2045 standards and interim standards.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Public Utilities Commission; Hawaii State Energy Office; Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission; Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority; Office of Economic Development of the County of Kauaʻi; Hawaiʻi Energy; Hawaiian Electric; Ulupono Initiative; 350Hawaii.org; Coalition Earth; and two individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the energy-efficiency portfolio standard set the statewide energy efficiency goal for 2030 at four thousand three hundred gigawatt hours and directed the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals for 2015, 2020, and 2025. Your Committee further finds that there is a need to extend these standards and ensure that the Public Utilities Commission can continue its work developing and overseeing the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards beyond 2030. This measure extends and updates the energy-efficiency portfolio standards established and overseen by the Public Utilities Commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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 H.B. No. 1051, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1051, 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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NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair