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Senate advances measure to streamline interconnection for grid-ready homes and add vehicle-grid language; utilities urge PUC coordination
Summary
Senators recommended passage of SB 587 with technical changes, including vehicle-to-grid language and removal of meter-socket-adapter language; Hawaiian Electric and other utilities asked the PUC and stakeholders to resolve operational and equity questions before prescriptive changes.
A Senate committee on Jan. 29 advanced SB 587, a measure intended to streamline interconnection and preparation of “grid-ready” homes and to facilitate higher penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), while adopting amendments and punctuating that utilities and regulators need coordination on some technical decisions.
The committee said it would adopt several technical and substantive changes, including removing meter-socket-adapter language suggested by KIUC, adding vehicle-to-grid/grid-to-vehicle provisions suggested by the Hawaii Solar Energy Association and defecting an effective date (the record references a legislative deferral date in the amendments). Committee chairs directed that…
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