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Senate amends renewable-energy bill to remove prescriptive rooftop target and leave compensation details to PUC
Summary
Senators voted to pass SB 589 with amendments that remove an explicit rooftop-installation goal from the bill and delegate retail-crediting and compensation rules to the Public Utilities Commission; utilities urged the PUC docket process continue.
On Jan. 29 the Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection moved SB 589 forward with amendments that strip a prescriptive statewide rooftop-installation goal from the bill and leave compensation and retail-crediting decisions to the Public Utilities Commission.
The Hawaii Solar Energy Association supported the bill’s original proposal, which set an ambitious near-term rooftop-solar-and-storage target and sought to expand retail crediting for exported grid…
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