The bell has rung, and the 2012 Hawaii state legislature is now in session. The hearing schedule is jam-packed with some key measures that Blue Planet will comment on. (Read more about our
legislative priorities for 2012.) Click the links to see our testimony. If you're interested in tracking the progress of bills, please refer to our
policy initiatives pages, which will be updated throughout the session.
Feb. 7 9a House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, Room 325
HB 425 HD1 Requires PUC to consider diverse portfolio of fossil fuels
HB 2259 Establishes hydrogen safety codes and standards
HB 2484 HD1 Clarifies EV registration rules and codifies existing incentives
HB 2485 HD1 Amends law requiring designated EV parking spaces
Feb. 6 9a House Committee on Transportation, Room 309
HB 2626 Establishes Safe Routes to School Program within Department of Transportation funded through a surcharge for certain traffic violations
Feb. 6 1:17p Senate Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, Senate Committee on Energy and Environment, Room 224
SB 2747 Amends law requiring designated EV parking spaces
SB 2746 Clarifies EV registration rules and codifies existing incentives
Feb. 2 10a House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, Room 325
HB 2400 Seeks to bifurcate Hawaii's main electric utility company into a transmission and distribution company and generating assets
Jan. 31 8:15a House Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, Room 325
HB 2525 Authorizes a Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator (HERA) and authorizes PUC to perform necessary electric system reliability and grid access oversight functions
HB 2490 Reduces the level of imputed debt assumed by electric utitilies when entering into power purchase agreements
HB 2041 Reduces curtailment of renewable power sold to public utilities and enables independent power producers to sell to other customers
HB 2043 Requires that electric utilities prioritize renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuel plants in their integrated resource planning
HB 2663 Establishes regulatory structure for the installation and implementation of an interisland, high-voltage, electric transmission cable system
Jan. 31 9a Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, Room 229
SB 2752 Reduces the level of imputed debt assumed by electric
utitilies when entering into power purchase agreements
SB 2787 Authorizes a Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator (HERA) and authorizes
PUC to perform necessary electric system reliability and grid access oversight functions
Jan. 31 2:45p Senate Committee on Energy and Environment, Room 225
SB 2287 Provides customers the option to maintain existing net energy metering contracts
SB 2966 Increases the allowable system size for net metered systems to two megawatts for State facilities and one megawatt for other systems
SB 2981 Requires that electric utilities prioritize renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuel plants in their integrated resource planning
SB 2291 Allows owner of condos in buildings no more than three stories high to install solar
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