Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 196D-14

  • Applicant: means any person who, pursuant to statute, ordinance, rule, or regulation, requests approval or a permit of the proposed project. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196D-3
  • Project: means the commercial development, construction, installation, financing, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement, including without limitation all applicable exploratory, testing, and predevelopment activities related to the foregoing of:

    (1) A geothermal power plant or plants, including all associated equipment, facilities, wells, and transmission lines, on the island of Hawaii for the purpose of generating electric energy for transmission primarily to the island of Oahu through the cable system; and

    (2) An interisland deep water electrical transmission cable system, including all land-based transmission lines and other ancillary facilities, to transmit geothermally generated electric energy from the island of Hawaii to the island of Oahu, regardless of whether the cable system is used to deliver electric energy to any intervening point. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 196D-3

To the extent an applicant‘s proposed project includes the development of geothermal resources on the island of Maui and the delivery of electric energy generated from these resources to the island of Oahu through the cable system, this chapter shall apply to that proposed project.