Chapter 269

§269-1 Definitions for public utility rules

§269-2 How the Public Utilities Commission is set up and who can serve

§269-3 Hiring and managing commission staff

§269-5 Annual report and public register of orders

§269-6 Public Utilities Commission's main powers and duties

§269-6.5 Filing documents electronically with the public utilities commission

§269-7 Commission's power to investigate utilities

§269-7.5 Getting a license to start a utility business

§269-8 Utilities must share information with the commission

§269-8.2 Where utilities must keep their records

§269-8.5 Annual financial reports must include a certification

§269-9 Utilities must report accidents to the commission

§269-10 Commission can require witnesses and evidence

§269-12 Notice rules for utility investigations and rate change hearings

§269-13 Right to bring a lawyer to utility commission hearings

§269-14.5 When the state can take over a failing utility

§269-15 Commission can enforce utility rules

§269-15.5 How to appeal a public utilities commission order

§269-15.6 Alternative dispute resolution

§269-16 Utility rates and how they are set

§269-16.1 Rewards and penalties for electric utility performance

§269-16.2 Utility rules for independent power producers need commission approval

§269-16.3 How utilities can spread emergency repair costs statewide

§269-16.4 Electricity suppliers must report fuel mix and prices yearly

§269-16.5 Lifeline telephone rates

§269-16.6 Phone relay services for people with hearing or speech disabilities

§269-16.8 Rules for places that provide operator-assisted phone calls

§269-16.9 When the state can exempt phone companies from rules

§269-17 When a utility can issue stocks and bonds

§269-17.5 Rules on foreign ownership of utility company stock

§269-18 Buying stock in another utility company

§269-19 When a utility can sell or merge without approval

§269-19.5 Rules for utility deals with affiliated companies

§269-20 Getting a license to carry people or goods by water

§269-23 Carrier responsibility for lost or damaged goods

§269-25 When the commission can value utility property

§269-26 State lease water rates investigation

§269-26.5 Preferential water rates for agricultural activities

§269-26.6 Lower water shipping rates for farmers

§269-27 Getting fair water rates for homes

§269-27.1 How geothermal energy rates are set

§269-27.2 How the state handles extra clean energy electricity

§269-27.3 Special rates for renewable energy from farms

§269-27.4 Rules for community renewable energy programs

§269-27.5 Public hearing before building high-voltage lines through homes

§269-27.6 Deciding whether new high-voltage power lines go above or below ground

§269-27.7 Lower electricity rates for protected farming

§269-27.8 How electric cooperatives can recover wildfire costs

§269-27.9 Rules for limiting electric utility wildfire payments

§269-28 Penalty

§269-29 Lying under oath to the utilities commission

§269-30 Public utility fees and how they are paid

§269-31 When this law does not apply and how electric cooperatives can get exceptions

§269-32 Who pays when someone damages utility property

§269-33 Public Utilities Commission Special Fund

§269-34 What phone companies must share with competitors

§269-35 Keeping phone service affordable and available for everyone

§269-36 Phone number portability

§269-37 How telecom companies get paid for connecting calls

§269-38 Flexible pricing for competitive telecom services

§269-39 Rules to stop one service from paying for another

§269-40 Fair access to high-quality telecom services for everyone

§269-41 State program for fair phone and internet access

§269-42 Universal service program; contributions

§269-43 How the state picks a phone company for certain areas

§269-44 Rules for solar water heater systems

§269-45 Gas companies must report their fuel sources each year

§269-45.5 Renewable gas tariff

§269-46 Microgrids

§269-46.1 State goals and rules for rooftop solar and energy storage

§269-46.2 Payments for solar and storage power sent to the grid

§269-46.3 New microgrids are not public utilities

§269-46.4 Rules for wheeling renewable electricity and microgrids

§269-47 Rules for sharing electric power system data

§269-48 No new coal power agreements after 2020

§269-51 Consumer advocate's role

§269-52 Setting up the consumer advocacy office and its leader

§269-53 Hiring lawyers for the consumer advocacy division

§269-54 Consumer advocate's powers and duties

§269-55 Handling of complaints

§269-71 Meter tampering

§269-72 Rebates for installing or upgrading electric vehicle chargers

§269-73 Who runs the electric vehicle charging rebate program

§269-74 Zero-emission vehicle fueling system rebate program

§269-91 Definitions for renewable energy and biofuels rules

§269-92 Renewable energy goals for electric companies

§269-93 Combining renewable energy portfolios

§269-94 When a utility misses its renewable energy goal

§269-95 How the state studies and updates renewable energy goals

§269-96 State rules for saving electricity by 2030 and 2045

§269-97 Electric companies must report customer changes yearly

§269-101 Who counts as an eligible customer-generator and what net metering means

§269-101.5 Maximum capacity of eligible customer-generator

§269-102 Net energy metering: standard contract and rates

§269-103 Reporting how much power customer generators produce

§269-104 When utilities can stop offering net metering

§269-105 How your net energy metering bill is calculated

§269-106 Monthly billing and yearly true-up for net metering customers

§269-107 When you owe the utility for net electricity use

§269-108 What happens to extra electricity you produce each month

§269-109 Monthly net energy details on your electric bill

§269-110 What happens when a customer-generator ends service

§269-111 Safety and performance standards for customer-generator energy systems

§269-121 How the public benefits fee is collected and used

§269-122 Public benefits fee administrator

§269-123 Rules for the public benefits fee administrator

§269-124 How to move from utility programs to the public benefits fee

§269-125 Paying for energy systems through your electric bill

§269-141 Definitions for Hawaii's electric system rules

§269-142 Who sets the rules for Hawaii's electric system

§269-143 Monitoring the Hawaii electric system

§269-144 Compliance and enforcement

§269-145 Grid access: connection procedures and dispute resolution

§269-145.5 Advanced grid modernization technology; principles

§269-146 Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge rules

§269-147 Who can run Hawaii's electricity reliability program

§269-148 Hawaii electricity reliability administrator: qualifications

§269-149 How the electricity reliability administrator gets and reports its money

§269-161 Definitions for green infrastructure bonds and fees

§269-162 Applying for a financing order to issue bonds and set a green infrastructure fee

§269-163 How the commission decides and issues green infrastructure financing orders

§269-164 Green infrastructure property

§269-165 Financing orders stay in effect until bonds are paid

§269-166 Green infrastructure fee

§269-167 New utility must follow financing order; default on green infrastructure fee

§269-168 Tax breaks and limits on green infrastructure bonds

§269-169 State promises not to hurt green infrastructure projects

§269-170 Green infrastructure loan program order; application

§269-171 Green infrastructure loan program order; issuance

§269-172 How utilities get paid for the loan program and billing

§269-173 What happens if part of this law is invalid

§269-174 269-174 Miscellaneous

§269-175 Green infrastructure bonds and the state debt limit

§269-176 How the green infrastructure fee gets adjusted

§269-191 Definitions for power purchase agreements and related terms

§269-192 Agreement to step in and pay power purchase costs if utility defaults

§269-193 What happens when an electric utility defaults on a power purchase agreement

§269-194 Trust fund for power purchase costs

§269-195 Reserve account; establishment

§269-196 Electric utility as the department's agent