Report Title:

Net Energy Producer; Payment By Utility

 

Description:

Requires an electric utility to pay a customer-generator who is a net electricity producer for excess kilowatt hours at wholesale rates. Requires the customer-generator to install the necessary metering equipment.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2191

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 269-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§269-108[]] Net electricity producers. At the end of each monthly billing period, where the electricity generated by the eligible customer-generator during the month exceeds the electricity supplied by the electric utility during that same period, the eligible customer-generator is a net electricity producer [and the]. The electric utility shall [retain any] compensate the eligible customer-generator for all excess kilowatt-hours generated during the prior monthly billing period[. The eligible customer-generator shall not be owed any compensation for those excess kilowatt-hours unless the electric utility enters into a purchase agreement with the eligible customer-generator for those excess kilowatt-hours.] at wholesale rates as determined by the commission. The eligible customer-generator shall be responsible for installing the metering equipment necessary to measure the flow of ingoing and outgoing electricity at different rates."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

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

INTRODUCED BY:

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