Waste water treatment plant business plan in KigaliAnvit Goyal
feasibility study for launching integrated wastewater management plant in the household segment in Rwanda. Formulated financial models and risk models to assess the best alternative for treatment systems.
Distributed energy resources (DERs) can provide net benefits to the electric system (e.g., congestion relief) and broader society (e.g., emission reductions). However, despite these advantages, the deployment of high penetrations of DER has proved challenging. Against this backdrop, the electric utility is often singled out as a fundamental barrier to deployment of DER assets. To overcome the perceived electric utility shortcomings, many stakeholders conclude that a completely new model is needed for the electric industry.
ScottMadden disagrees with this assessment and instead believes electric utilities maintain natural advantages that can be leveraged to deploy renewables and DER assets as well or better than some models being offered. In our 51st Phase II Roadmap, ScottMadden proposes leveraging the natural advantages of the electric utility in order to accelerate the deployment and penetration of DER assets.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
Waste water treatment plant business plan in KigaliAnvit Goyal
feasibility study for launching integrated wastewater management plant in the household segment in Rwanda. Formulated financial models and risk models to assess the best alternative for treatment systems.
Distributed energy resources (DERs) can provide net benefits to the electric system (e.g., congestion relief) and broader society (e.g., emission reductions). However, despite these advantages, the deployment of high penetrations of DER has proved challenging. Against this backdrop, the electric utility is often singled out as a fundamental barrier to deployment of DER assets. To overcome the perceived electric utility shortcomings, many stakeholders conclude that a completely new model is needed for the electric industry.
ScottMadden disagrees with this assessment and instead believes electric utilities maintain natural advantages that can be leveraged to deploy renewables and DER assets as well or better than some models being offered. In our 51st Phase II Roadmap, ScottMadden proposes leveraging the natural advantages of the electric utility in order to accelerate the deployment and penetration of DER assets.
For more information, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
ScottMadden recently joined industry leaders as a sponsor and presenter at Infocast’s 19th Annual Transmission Summit. Here, Todd Williams, partner and fossil practice co-leader at ScottMadden, reviewed the generation landscape and the impacts of the Clean Power Plan.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
ScottMadden's Energy Industry Update for the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Confer...ScottMadden, Inc.
As economic growth continues, and policies are increasingly driven by state and regional issues, utilities are placing bets, with large investments, on various growth strategies. They continue to face opposition and challenges from various stakeholders with disparate interests. Energy and utility companies will try to thread the needle of developing and upgrading much needed infrastructure, while satisfying those interests.
During the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Conference, Cristin Lyons reviewed the latest Energy Industry Update and shared key highlights for topics including:
- Electrification: A summary of increased electrification activities (ie: transportation/space heating) being promoted by electric industry stakeholders, and electrification’s pros and cons
- Wholesale energy infrastructure development: A discussion of proposed gas and power transmission projects, potential regulatory changes, and surrounding issues/implications
- Grid modernization: Noteworthy efforts around the nation, including both the programs and the common themes.
Learn more at www.scottmadden.com.
Joe Pizarchik, OSMRE Director, “Future of AML Funding and Changing Prospects ...Michael Hewitt, GISP
Joe Pizarchik is the 10th Director of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining. An Indiana County, Pennsylvania native, Joseph Pizarchik attended the Pennsylvania State University, first at the Altoona Campus and then graduating from University Park in 1979. Pizarchik was one of the authors of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Good Samaritan Act and provided counsel during the development and implementation of the Good Samaritan program. Pizarchik is also credited with helping clear the way for the sale of private mining property to the Families of Flight 93 to enable the construction of the national memorial, a project to which he remains committed.
Utility Distribution Planning and Distributed Energy Resource Integration: EQ...Smart Grid Northwest
Changes in Distribution Planning and Operations and DER Integration: April 2015 EQL Energy Presentation at Western Interstate Energy Board, CREPC/SPSC.
Department of Labor Preliminary Regulatory Reform PlanObama White House
When President Obama unveiled his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system that protects the health and safety of Americans in a cost-effective way, he called for an unprecedented government-wide review of rules already on the books. As a result of that review, the Department of Labor has identified initiatives to reduce burdens and save money. Read the agency plan and share your comments, feedback and questions.
Visit WhiteHouse.gov/RegulatoryReform to view all the plans and learn more.
ScottMadden recently joined industry leaders as a sponsor and presenter at Infocast’s 19th Annual Transmission Summit. Here, Todd Williams, partner and fossil practice co-leader at ScottMadden, reviewed the generation landscape and the impacts of the Clean Power Plan.
To learn more, please visit www.scottmadden.com.
ScottMadden's Energy Industry Update for the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Confer...ScottMadden, Inc.
As economic growth continues, and policies are increasingly driven by state and regional issues, utilities are placing bets, with large investments, on various growth strategies. They continue to face opposition and challenges from various stakeholders with disparate interests. Energy and utility companies will try to thread the needle of developing and upgrading much needed infrastructure, while satisfying those interests.
During the 2019 Utility Supply Chain Conference, Cristin Lyons reviewed the latest Energy Industry Update and shared key highlights for topics including:
- Electrification: A summary of increased electrification activities (ie: transportation/space heating) being promoted by electric industry stakeholders, and electrification’s pros and cons
- Wholesale energy infrastructure development: A discussion of proposed gas and power transmission projects, potential regulatory changes, and surrounding issues/implications
- Grid modernization: Noteworthy efforts around the nation, including both the programs and the common themes.
Learn more at www.scottmadden.com.
Joe Pizarchik, OSMRE Director, “Future of AML Funding and Changing Prospects ...Michael Hewitt, GISP
Joe Pizarchik is the 10th Director of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining. An Indiana County, Pennsylvania native, Joseph Pizarchik attended the Pennsylvania State University, first at the Altoona Campus and then graduating from University Park in 1979. Pizarchik was one of the authors of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Good Samaritan Act and provided counsel during the development and implementation of the Good Samaritan program. Pizarchik is also credited with helping clear the way for the sale of private mining property to the Families of Flight 93 to enable the construction of the national memorial, a project to which he remains committed.
Utility Distribution Planning and Distributed Energy Resource Integration: EQ...Smart Grid Northwest
Changes in Distribution Planning and Operations and DER Integration: April 2015 EQL Energy Presentation at Western Interstate Energy Board, CREPC/SPSC.
Department of Labor Preliminary Regulatory Reform PlanObama White House
When President Obama unveiled his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system that protects the health and safety of Americans in a cost-effective way, he called for an unprecedented government-wide review of rules already on the books. As a result of that review, the Department of Labor has identified initiatives to reduce burdens and save money. Read the agency plan and share your comments, feedback and questions.
Visit WhiteHouse.gov/RegulatoryReform to view all the plans and learn more.
A sham "study" cooked up by a group of people with conflicts of interest for anti-drilling, anti-fossil fuel Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that supposedly "proves" New England doesn't need more natural gas than it has now.
SUMMARY STATEMENT TO THE SENATE COMMITTEES ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH, MARCH 19, 2013
By: Christian S. Monsod
Climate Change Congress of the Philippines
pp.1-5
VOTE FOR DAVID IGE - GOVERNOR STATE OF HAWAII
A Leader for Hawaii
It is a privilege of HSTA to recommend Gov. David Ige for four more years as governor because he has been a leader for human and civil rights as well as a strong advocate for Hawaii’s public schools, teachers and keiki.
~ Corey Rosenlee, President. Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA)
Powerful interests opposed David Ige in all of his efforts - interests that value short term profit over Hawaii's long term security. But Governor Ige never once backed down.
~ Colin Yost, Chair, Executive Committee, Sierra Club of Hawaii
Governor Ige is the people’s candidate. Governor Ige is committed to government accountability, oversight of government contracts, cracking down on tax fraud and increasing affordable housing.
~ Dayton Nakanelua, State Director, United Public Workers (UPW)
Local 5 is endorsing Governor Ige in his re-election campaign because he has been loyal to Hawaii’s working families. He shot down the NextEra merger with Hawaiian Electric, which would have been disastrous for working families who already pay way too much for utilities and can’t afford to pay more.
~ Eric Gill, Financial Secretary-Treasurer, UNITE HERE Local 5
Hawaii Mayor Harry Kim - Endorses Governor David Ige
Kilauea erupted with a force none of us have ever seen. Governor Ige responded without any hesitation. The Governor told me, "This is when people need us and we better dam well come through." He coordinated all of his Departments, the military and the National Guard which is unbelievable and its continues today because the emergency still goes on. I say thank you Governor because he came through, he came through.
Department of Energy Preliminary Regulatory Reform PlanObama White House
When President Obama unveiled his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system that protects the health and safety of Americans in a cost-effective way, he called for an unprecedented government-wide review of rules already on the books. As a result of that review, the Department of Energy has identified initiatives to reduce burdens and save money. Read the agency plan and share your comments, feedback and questions.
Visit WhiteHouse.gov/RegulatoryReform to view all the plans and learn
House Bill (H.B.) 1999 HD1, now before the Hawaii Legislature, is one of the most important pieces of legislation to be considered for enactment into law.
H.B. 1999 HD1 establishes the Legislative Utility Oversight Task Force to review franchises held by investor-owned electric utilities, specifically, Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) and its subsidiary utilities, Maui Electric Company (MECO) and Hawaii Electric Light Company (HELCO)
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HECO OPPOSES H.B. 1999 HD1.
HECO is a state-granted monopoly. Denial or Opposition to the review of its processes is not a right or privilege to be invoked by HECO. HECO has been granted the right to be the sole provider of electric power to the people of Hawaii. The self-serving testimony of HECO is subject to review, so are its processes, and its links to its parent, Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI) and its sister, American Savings Bank (ASB).
The testimony of the Consumer Advocate and The Blue Planet are instructive and illustrative.
TESTIMONY OF HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY (HECO)
The Hawaiian Electric Company and its subsidiary utilities, Maui Electric Company and Hawaii Electric Light Company, OPPOSES H.B. 1999, H.D. 1.
TESTIMONY OF THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE
“The Consumer Advocate APPRECIATES the intent of the H.D.1, which is proposing to regularly evaluate investor-owned utility companies to “ensure that these utilities are adequately providing services that serve the public.” All utility companies should be held accountable for their duty to provide safe, reliable, high quality utility services at affordable rates. The Consumer Advocate APPRECIATES the Legislature’s desire to hold the HECO Companies accountable to their franchise by creating this task force, although much of the work of the task force may be duplicative of what the Commission is already doing.” [Emphasis supplied]
TESTIMONY OF BLUE PLANET FOUNDATION
“As the PUC’s May 2013 order said, “attractive financial returns are not a utility entitlement." But developing the right system—the world-class system that other utilities emulate—should provide attractive value not only for the utility and its shareholders, but also for every resident in the state. As the PUC concluded, “the public interest demands no less.” BLUE PLANET FOUNDATION BELIEVES THAT HB 1999 HD1 WILL HELP IDENTIFY HOW BEST TO ENSURE THAT OUR INVESTOR-OWNED UTILITIES PROVIDE THAT VALUE. THIS INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION REGARDING HOW TO REGULATE HAWAII'S LARGEST ELECTRIC COMPANY WILL DETERMINE HOW THE ISLANDS ARE POWERED FOR THE NEXT CENTURY.” [Emphasis supplied]
Transparency, accountability, and responsibility require full disclosure and openness to audit, investigation, inquiry, and review by independent, third-parties and agencies.
The House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce has scheduled a Decision Making Hearing, Today, February 12, 2014, 2:00 p.m., Hawaii State Capitol, Room 325.
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A Call to Action CPAs - Confronting the Lease Accounting Changes - iLease Man...jmeedzan
iLease Management LLC has been providing insightful research and recommended approaches into the proposed lease accounting changes for over two years. This presentation dives into not only how the proposed FASB and IASB lease accounting changes will impact organizations but shows how, at the functional level, what questions need to be considered in order to comply with these upcoming standard changes. We outline the functional areas like Corporate, Finance, Treasury, Human Resource and Technology. And given the resource limitations within most organizations, we show how the lease accounting changes will present “Opportunities for Assistance” for Certified Public Accountants (“CPAs”) that are looking for ways to add value to their client relationships.
This presentation explains how CPAs can position themselves to be proactive and provide technology and services that are of critical importance to their clients.
Gov. Ige sent a letter to California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo in response to her August 2020 request for information about Hawaii's pandemic response.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/08/california-congresswoman-wants-answers-on-hawaiis-virus-response-effort/
Audit of the Department of the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney’s Policies, Proc...Honolulu Civil Beat
This audit was conducted pursuant to Resolution 19-255,
requesting the city auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Honolulu Police Department and the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney’s policies and procedures related to employee misconduct.
Audit of the Honolulu Police Department’s Policies, Procedures, and ControlsHonolulu Civil Beat
The audit objectives were to:
1. Evaluate the effectiveness of HPD’s existing policies, procedures, and controls to identify and respond to complaints or incidents concerning misconduct, retaliation, favoritism, and abuses of power by its management and employees;
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of HPD's management control environment and practices to correct errors and prevent any misconduct, retaliation, favoritism, and abuses of power by its
management and employees; and
3. Make recommendations to improve HPD’s policies, procedures, and controls to minimize and avoid future managerial and operational breakdowns caused by similar misconduct.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Monitoring Java Application Security with JDK Tools and JFR Events
Request irp extension
1. June 11, 2013
Chair Hermina Morita
State of Hawai‘i Public Utilities Commission
Department of Budget and Finance
465 South King Street #103
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813
Dear Chair Morita,
On behalf of the undersigned members of the Integrated Resource Planning Advisory Group
(“AG”), this letter is submitted in response to your letter to the AG dated May 15, 2013. Events
subsequent to the May 15 letter, and in particular events at the May 30 AG meeting, compel us to
request that you reconsider the decision not to extend the June 28, 2013 IRP filing deadline.
The HECO Companies, Independent Entity, Consumer Advocate, and AG have all worked hard
to make the IRP process valuable to our state’s energy planning process, and we thank you for
expressing the Commission’s appreciation for our work. However, at the May 30 AG meeting it
became apparent that the most critical step of the process cannot be completed prior to June
28. The HECO Companies’ submittal will be made without the AG, as a group, having
opportunity to review the proposed Action Plan, and without the HECO Companies having
opportunity to consider the AG’s perspectives on its proposed submittal. This threatens to derail
the IRP process. Upon the June 28 filing, the process will necessarily shift from a more
collaborative posture, to the more adversarial procedural posture dictated by Commission rules.
It is crucial that the AG and HECO Companies have the opportunity to work together to review
and refine the proposed Action Plan before it is submitted to the Commission, and before the
process becomes more adversarial. Whether by the excusable neglect of the HECO Companies,
the Independent Entity, or the AG, the initial IRP schedule was delayed and the Action Plan was
not provided to the AG for review before the final AG meeting. We request a four-month
extension for the HECO Companies’ filing, on the basis of such excusable neglect, and to
help ensure that the parties’ work to date is used in a way that is efficient and effective.
While four months may not be enough time to address all of the open questions that remain in
this process, it will allow time (i) for the AG to review and comment on the Action Plan, (ii) for
the HECO Companies to consider that advice and revise the Action Plan where appropriate, and
(iii) for the parties to address several key unresolved questions and issues that have arisen during
the IRP process. For example, under the current deadline, the following issues will remain
unresolved prior to the HECO Companies’ submission:
(1) Nexus between resource plan(s) and action plan(s). As of the May 30 meeting, many
AG members expressed concern and confusion about how resource plans, scenarios,
metrics, and analyses are to be translated into the Action Plan(s). The HECO
Companies, Independent Entity, Consumer Advocate, and AG expended significant time
and effort on developing and reviewing such scenarios, metrics, and other items. Without
2. any opportunity to comment on whether there is an appropriate nexus between that work
and the proposed Action Plans, the undersigned AG members fear that this substantial
work will not be adequately reflected in the June 28 filing.
(2) Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. At the May 30 meeting, the HECO Companies’
presented a high-level overview of the planned direction for the proposed Action Plan.
However, several aspects of that high-level overview confirm that the IRP process has
run afoul of the agreement between the HECO Companies’ and others memorialized in
the HCEI Agreement and subsequent amendments. For example, the HCEI Agreement
mandates the following loading order: “The parties agree that the maximum possible
use must be made of energy efficiency, demand response and renewable energy. The
utilities shall apply this loading order in the CESP [i.e. IRP] process in determining
the utilities' resource plans to supply the total system load.” Relatedly, the HCEI
Agreement requires that the IRP shall identify fossil needs but that new fossil units
“should be justified primarily by the need to balance and integrate variable
renewable energy generation sources for overall grid reliability.” However, the
process used to date in IRP to evaluate various resource plans (and presumably the
process on which the Action Plan(s) will be based) was not based on this loading order.
Several members of the AG expressed concern that the IRP process relied upon a “firm
energy first” screening process, with variable renewable energy and demand response
applied only in later steps. For example, on May 20, after the Commission’s May 15
letter, Synapse Energy Economics on behalf of the Consumer Advocate submitted a
lengthy statement of comments on the IRP process to date. Among other things, those
comments noted its shared concern with the “firm first” screening steps: “Wind and
solar were given no credit to meeting firm requirements. This is inconsistent with
typical treatment of these resources seen in other jurisdictions and may result in
HECO building more capacity than needed.” The result of the “firm first” loading
order is that the submitted Action Plan will apparently propose to commit capital
expenditures to fuel fossil units to add LNG capability. There is no indication that such
capital expenditures on fossil units will have any benefit for “balanc[ing] and
integrat[ing] variable renewable energy generation sources.”
(3) Unresolved AG questions. On May 6, 2013, the Independent Entity identified several
AG comments/questions that remain unresolved and without response from the HECO
Companies.1
In response to the Independent Entities’ inquiry, the HECO Companies
declined to issue written responses to those questions/comments, on the basis that such
responses “would divert the Companies’ resources at this time from documenting
the analyses and completing the filing by June 28, 2013, and could diminish the
quality of the IRP Final Report and Action Plan.” The subsequent May 20 Synapse
Energy comments will presumably also remain unanswered in whole or in part.
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Cf. Framework at 9: “Advisory Group members may request that the Independent Entity seek a
response from, or make a recommendation to, the utility concerning any issue relevant to this framework.
The Independent Entity may, at its discretion, present these questions or recommendations to the utility as
appropriate. The utility shall respond in writing and the Independent Entity shall, in turn, share such
3. (4) Resource Plans. The IRP Framework defines “Resource Plan” as “a set of resources,
programs, or actions over the twenty (20) year planning horizon resulting from the
analyses performed for the Scenarios developed during the integrated resource planning
process governed by this framework.” The Framework also specifies that “[t]he utility
shall develop Resource Plans and an Action Plan in consultation with Advisory
Group(s), the public, and the Independent Entity, subject to the oversight and
approval of the Commission,” and that the Resource Plans must be submitted to the
Commission.2
Although the AG was provided with the numerous excel spreadsheets that
were created by the HECO Companies’ during the analyses performed for the Scenarios,
the AG has not been presented with definitive Resource Plans for comments “resulting
from the analyses.”
With more time, these and other key issues can be addressed by the HECO Companies,
Independent Entity, Consumer Advocate, and AG. We request that the Commission reconsider
its prior communication indicating that no extension may be granted.
We appreciate the Commission’s dedication to an open and effective IRP process to date, and we
thank the Commission in advance for considering this request for extension.
Respectfully submitted as members of the IRP AG,
Bash Nola, Blue Planet Foundation
Isaac Moriwake, Earthjustice
Leslie Cole-Brooks, Hawaii Solar Energy Association
Greg Kahn, I Aloha Molokai
Betsy Cole, The Kohala Center
Henry Curtis, Life of the Land
Kyle Datta, Ulupono Initiative
Jennifer Chirico, University of Hawai‘i, Maui College
Warren Bollmeier
Dick Mayer
cc: HECO Companies
Independent Entity
Office of the Consumer Advocate
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See Framework at 3: “The Commission will review the utility's Scenarios, Resource Plans, Action Plan,
and evaluations, and generally monitor the utility's implementation of its Action Plan. Upon review, the
Commission shall approve, reject, approve in part or reject in part the Action Plan, or require
modifications of the utility's Scenarios, Resource Plans and Action Plan, as applicable.”