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Committee hears HB 2330 to prioritize campus district-energy funding and HB 2338 to scale community weatherization
Summary
Lawmakers heard staff briefings and supportive testimony for HB 2330 (creates a Commerce committee to score and prioritize state campus district-energy projects) and HB 2338 (authorizes community-scale weatherization projects), with university and nonprofit witnesses urging predictability and scale.
The committee opened public hearings on two bills.
HB 2330 would establish a Campus Energy Upgrades Committee within Commerce to review, score and prioritize state campus district-energy decarbonization projects and deliver a preliminary framework to the governor and legislature by Dec. 30. Don Eichner (committee staff) said the committee would include appointed voting and non-voting members, could weight and adopt additional scoring criteria, and would be asked to analyze barriers to energy-as-a-service contracts. Eichner estimated Commerce operating costs to administer the committee would be several hundred thousand dollars in…
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