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HI HB1290
Bill
Status
1/27/2021
Primary Sponsor
Jackson Sayama
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AI Summary
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Authorizes government agencies to wheel electricity produced by their own renewable energy facilities to other government agencies through existing utility transmission lines.
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Defines "wheeling" as transmitting electric power from one governmental agency's generation point to other governmental agencies' facilities over a third-party electric utility's transmission lines.
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Grants the Public Utilities Commission authority to disallow any wheeling project if determined to be detrimental to an electric company or not in the public interest.
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Allows the Public Utilities Commission to implement the wheeling authorization through rulemaking or commission orders pursuant to Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Takes effect on July 1, 2050.
Legislative Description
Relating To Energy.
Public Utilities Commission
Last Action
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Har, Tokioka voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Okimoto voting no (1) and Representative(s) Ohno excused (1).
2/11/2021