Report Title:

Net Energy Metering; Remove System Cap; Customer-Generators

Description:

Amends the net energy metering law by removing the 10 kilowatt cap on the size of the system, and by incrementally increasing, by .5 per cent every two years to 2020, the percentage of the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators of the electric utility system's peak demand. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1682

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

S.D. 1

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 269-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "eligible customer-generator" to read as follows:

""Eligible customer-generator" means a metered residential or commercial customer of an electric utility who owns and operates a solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating facility, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, [with a capacity of not more than ten kilowatts,] that is:

(1) Located on the customer's premises;

(2) Operated in parallel with the utility's transmission and distribution facilities;

(3) In conformance with the utility's interconnection requirements; and

(4) Intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer's own electrical requirements."

SECTION 2. Section 269-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Every electric utility shall develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering, and shall make this contract available to eligible customer-generators, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators equals [.5 per cent] the following percentage of the electric utility's system peak demand[.] in each of the following years:

(1) 1.0 per cent in 2004;

(2) 1.5 per cent in 2006;

(3) 2.0 per cent in 2008;

(4) 2.5 per cent in 2010;

(5) 3.0 per cent in 2012;

(6) 3.5 per cent in 2014;

(7) 4.0 per cent in 2016;

(8) 4.5 per cent in 2018; and

(9) 5.0 per cent in 2020."

SECTION 3. Section 269-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§269-104[]] Additional customer-generators. Notwithstanding section 269-102, an electric utility is not obligated to provide net energy metering to additional customer-generators in its service area when the combined total peak generating capacity of all eligible customer-generators served by all the electric utilities in that service area furnishing net energy metering to eligible customer-generators equals [.5 per cent] the percentage of the system peak demand of those electric utilities[.] as provided in section 269-102(a)."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.