THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2024

 

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Senator Angus L.K. McKelvey, Chair

Senator Mike Gabbard, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM

Senator Lynn DeCoite, Chair

Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

TIME:

3:10 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 225 & Videoconference

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

GVO

 

 

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The Legislature is accepting written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.

A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available on the Senate YouTube Channel.

 

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 3357

      Status & Testimony

 

 

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility.  Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the reports no later than five years from the issue date of the reports.  Assigns priority for the required energy efficiency measures to first responder facilities.

 

GVO/EET, WAM

SB 2770

      Status & Testimony

 

 

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Allows the counties to establish, by ordinance, an opt-in program that allows an annual payment in lieu of real property taxes on the land or improvements thereon that are actively used to produce or store renewable energy that is sold to an electric utility.

 

GVO/EET, WAM

SB 2822

      Status & Testimony

 

 

RELATING TO ENERGY.

By 8/1/24, requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules the Department of Accounting and General Services may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by renewable energy sources from their own facilities over existing transmission lines, subject to certain restrictions.

 

EET/GVO, CPN/WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Please go to the Legislature's website, www.capitol.hawaii.gov, to submit written testimony at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. Create a free account on the website, or sign in to an existing account, then click on the "Participate" drop down menu and select the "Submit Testimony" option to get started. While submitting your written testimony, you will be prompted to indicate if you would also like to testify at the hearing in-person or remotely via videoconference.

 

Please note the following:

 

·         The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.

·         Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 2 minutes each.

 

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For amended notices: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6070.

 

 

 

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Senator Lynn DeCoite

Chair

 

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Senator Angus L.K. McKelvey

Chair