PUC Annual Report–Fiscal Year 2011-12 - Public Utilities Commission

Public Utilities Commission Annual Report 2011-12
State of Hawaii Page 24
Table 4. Power Purchase Agreements pending before the Commission as of
October 2012
Island Party Size Technology Docket No.
Oahu Kalaeloa Renewable Energy Park 5 MW Photovoltaic 2011-0384
Oahu H-Power Expansion 27 MW Municipal Solid Waste 2012-0129
Hawaii Hu Honua Bioenergy 21.5 MW Biomass 2012-0212
Kauai MP2 Hawaii Solar I 0.3 MW Photovoltaic 2011-0362
Total:
53.8 MW
Table 5. Fuel supply contracts at the Commission
Island Party Amount (M Gal) Term Fuel
Renewable Fuel Contracts Approved Since July 1, 2011
Oahu Renewable Energy Group 3-7 3 years Biodiesel
Marketing and Logistics
Renewable Fuel Contracts Pending before the Commission as of October 2012
Oahu Pacific Biodiesel 250K-1 3 years Biodiesel
Oahu Hawaii BioEnergy 10 20 years Biofuel
Hawaii Aina Koa Pono-Kau 16 20 years Biodiesel
Net Energy Metering
In 2001, Hawaii first enacted a Net Energy Metering law that is codified as HRS
§§ 269-101 through 269-111. The purpose of NEM is to allow electric utility customers
with personal electric generation capacity to feed excess energy back to electric utilities.
The statute originally set the individual system maximum at 50 kW (HRS § 269-101.5)
and the maximum for all customer-generators in a service area at 0.5 percent of system
peak demand (HRS § 269-104), giving the Commission the ability to increase these
maximums by rule or order. The Commission increased the maximum size limit for an
individual system to 100 kW with pilot programs for systems up to 500 kW or larger if
technically and economically reasonable and practicable, removed the system cap, and
instituted a flexible per-circuit cap at 15 percent, in Docket No. 2006-0084. Docket
No. 2010-0015 changed the trigger for interconnection studies when at the per-circuit
cap.