Report Title:

Energy Efficiency Portfolio

 

Description:

Directs the public utilities commission to establish energy efficiency portfolio standards.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

429

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to energy efficiency.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 269, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§269-    Energy efficiency portfolio standards.  (a)  The public utilities commission shall establish energy efficiency portfolio standards that will offset the forecasted electrical load growth statewide between the years 2009 and 2030.

     (b)  The energy efficiency portfolio standards shall be designed to achieve four thousand three hundred gigawatts of electricity savings statewide by 2030; provided that the public utilities commission shall establish interim goals for energy use reductions.

     (c)  The public utilities commission shall:

     (1)  Identify parties and stakeholders who are responsible for each element of the energy efficiency portfolio standards;

     (2)  Monitor progress towards achieving the energy efficiency portfolio standards; and

     (3)  Establish incentives and penalties based on performance.

     (d)  In establishing the energy efficiency portfolio standards, the public utilities commission shall consider the impact of renewable energy substitutions, including solar water heating and seawater air-conditioning, on meeting energy efficiency standards.

     (e)  The public benefits fee administrator shall develop energy efficiency programs designed to facilitate the achievement of energy efficiency portfolio standards.  Beginning March 1, 2010, the public benefits fee administrator shall submit annual progress reports to the public utilities commission on the energy savings achieved during the previous year."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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