{"id":71126,"date":"2017-11-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=71126"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:28:03","slug":"uh-hawaiian-electric-companies-green-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/21\/uh-hawaiian-electric-companies-green-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> and Hawaiian Electric Companies’ green tariff to benefit campuses and community"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"Solar<\/p>\n

The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> and the Hawaiian Electric Companies<\/a> have committed to collaborate on development of an innovative renewable energy initiative to help the university achieve its net-zero energy goal and bring online more cost-effective, renewable energy resources to benefit the entire state.<\/p>\n

The initiative aims to develop a “green tariff,” subject to approval by the Public Utilities Commission, for projects that would increase renewable energy generation, improve grid capacity for renewables and lower energy costs for the university. If projects identified through competitive bidding are able to provide renewable electricity at lower rates, the new green tariff would be made available to other similar institutions in the future.<\/p>\n

“Moving to reliable and cost-effective renewable electricity is a core priority for the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span>,” said 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/strong><\/a>. “Working collaboratively to reduce both our dependence on fossil fuels and our utility bills is an essential part of fulfilling our leadership responsibility and commitment to the future of our students, our university and Hawaiʻi<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

Jan Gouveia<\/a><\/strong>, 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> vice president for administration, said: “The university is excited to explore a \u2018green tariff\u2019 as a valuable component of our energy resource plans, especially if it allows renewable energy generated at off-site university properties to serve various campus locations. The agreement to collaborate was developed by university and Hawaiian Electric representatives who met to discuss ways in which campuses could reduce their energy bills while contributing to the state\u2019s goal of replacing fossil fuels for electricity with 100 percent renewable resources by 2045.”<\/p>\n

Joint university-utility working group<\/h2>\n

Under the non-binding memorandum of understanding, a joint university-utility working group will develop a model tariff, eligibility requirements, cost structure and other details.<\/p>\n

‘The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> is a leading institution in our state and one of our largest customers,” said Alan Oshima, president and CEO<\/abbr> of Hawaiian Electric. “Our continuing collaboration over many years has benefited our community. This latest initiative will help the university, our community and our customers as we strive for our common clean energy goals.”<\/p>\n

The working group will evaluate sites for possible renewable energy development, concentrating first on utility-scale projects that would offset energy use at the M\u0101noa campus. The group will also consider technologies currently on the market, such as combined solar-photovoltaic systems with energy storage, to supply cost-effective renewable energy and provide all utility customers with system-wide benefits including service reliability and resilience. <\/p>\n

These efforts supplement the university\u2019s continuing efforts to promote energy efficiency, distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar PV<\/abbr>, demand-response grid services, and other measures to achieve the net-zero goal. Under Act 99 (2015) the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> has the collective goal \u201cto become net-zero with respect to energy use, producing as much (renewable) energy as the system consumes across all campuses by January 1, 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Act 97 (2015) the Hawaiian Electric Companies must meet a 30 percent renewable portfolio standard by 2020; 40 percent by 2030; 70 percent by 2040; and 100 percent by Dec. 31, 2045. By the end of this year, the companies expect to exceed a 27 percent RPS<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The innovative renewable energy initiative will help the university achieve its net-zero energy goal and bring more cost-effective, renewable energy resources to the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[672,73,947],"class_list":["post-71126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92633,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions\/92633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}