![[logo] US EPA](http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/images/logo_epaseal.gif){kind=logo}
Funding Resources
Funding Resources
| HI Renewable Portfolio Standard | |
|---|---|
| Type of Incentive | Environmental Regulations |
| Eligible States | HI |
| Eligible Technology | Backpressure Turbine, Boiler, Combustion Turbine, Condensing Turbine, Extracting Turbine, Fuel Cell, Microturbine, Other, Reciprocating Engine, Heat Recovery Generator, Stirling Engine |
| Eligible Fuel | Biogas, Biomass, Hydrogen, LFG, Municipal Solid Waste, Natural Gas, Other |
| Eligible Project Size | All (MW) |
| Critical Information | Portfolio Standard: 10 percent by the end of 2010; 15 percent by the end of 2015; 20 percent by the end of 2020. Existing renewables may be counted in the total, as does "renewable electrical energy." Eligible Technologies: wind; the sun; falling water; biogas, including landfill and sewage-based digester gas; geothermal; ocean water, currents and waves; biomass, including biomass crops, agricultural and animal residues and wastes, and municipal solid waste; biofuels; and hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources; and "renewable electrical energy." "Renewable electrical energy" means: (1) Electrical energy generated using renewable energy as the source; (2) Electrical energy savings brought about by the use of renewable displacement or off-set technologies, including solar water heating, seawater air-conditioning district cooling systems, solar air-conditioning, and customer-sited, grid-connected renewable energy systems; or (C) Electrical energy savings brought about by the use of energy efficiency technologies, including heat pump water heating, ice storage, ratepayer- funded energy efficiency programs, and use of rejected heat from CHP systems, excluding fossil-fueled qualifying facilities that sell electricity to electric utility companies and central station power projects." |
| Start Date | 12/31/2003 |
| End Date |
|
| Minimum Efficiency (%) |
|
| Additional Information | Utility companies and their affiliates can combine their renewable portfolios to achieve the standard. Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is required to conduct a peer-reviewed study every five years and to provide a recommendation as to whether to revise the RPS. Hawaii's RPS does not set 20 percent or the year 2020 as limits. |
| Web Site | http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/ incentive2.cfm?Incentive_Code=HI06R&state=HI&CurrentPageID=1&RE=1&EE=1  |
| Primary Contact | Steven Alber P.O. Box 2359 Honolulu, HI 96804 U.S.A. Steven Alber (salber@dbedt.hawaii.gov) (808) 587-3837 (808) 587-3839 |