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In essence, the document focuses on strengthening the utility, providing federal tax credits to support crude palm oil biodiesel production, and emphasizes building large-scale central station generation facilities.

It minimizes distributed generation and calls for a termination of the popular net metering program where homeowners can install solar photovoltaic systems on their roofs and use the grid as a battery, paying only on the net difference of what they export to and import from the grid.

Perhaps the most controversial part of the document is the proposed inter-island cable.

Missing from the discussion is the reliability, cost and environmental impacts associated with the cable…

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