Report Title:

Electricity Generation; Transmission Costs to be Shared

 

Description:

Requires the public utility commission to adopt rules to require any eligible customer-generator that enters into a net energy metering contract with an electric utility to supply electricity through the electric utility's electric grid to share in the cost of the transmission of that electricity.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1450

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to the public utilities commission.

 

 

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 part VI to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§269-     Electric power transmission; costs to be shared by eligible customer-generator; rules.  The commission shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to require any eligible customer-generator that enters into a net energy metering contract with an electric utility to supply electricity through the electric utility's electric grid to share in the cost of the transmission of that electricity, which may include but not be limited to an interisland deep water electrical transmission cable system, land-based transmission lines, and other ancillary facilities, that transmit electric energy from any island in the State to any other island in the State regardless of whether the transmission system is used to deliver electric energy to any intervening point."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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