STAND. COM. REP. 2556

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2863

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2863 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the energy performance contracting statute to reflect the current state practices and add water conservation measures that produce energy savings on-site and off-site.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the University of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that performance contracting is an important mechanism for implementing energy efficiency projects in the State. Your Committee further finds that water saving technologies play an important role in energy conservation efforts and are often inextricably linked with energy savings technologies in resource conservation projects. Including water saving technologies with energy savings projects will conform to federal practices and facilitate financing for the State's resource conservation projects. In addition, your Committee finds that increasing the term limit of performance contracts from fifteen to twenty years will promote greater use of those contracts.

Accordingly, your Committee amended the measure by adding a preamble section reciting the need to include water saving technology, increasing the energy performance contract term limits from 15 to 20 years, and making a technical, nonsubstantive, stylistic change.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2863, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2863, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair