Hawaii Natural Energy Institute - HNEI

01/15/2021

HNEI was selected in a competitive solicitation as an initial partner of U.S. DOE’s Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to support energy system planning and project identification in island and remote communities. We are seeking applications from energy stakeholders in Hawai‘i and Pacific U.S. Territories who are interested in receiving technical and policy support from our project team over the next 12 to 18 months. More information about this can be found at the link below.

HNEI was selected in a competitive solicitation as an initial partner of U.S. DOE’s Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) to support energy system planning and project identification in island and remote communities. Beginning in December 2020, the three-year ETIPP program’s ...

10/30/2019

HNEI researchers participated in the 2019 SOEST Open House and produced exhibits that featured hands-on activities to demonstrate integration of renewable energy, power generation, and energy efficiency and how electrochemical power systems work using battery technology. More information can be found at https://www.hnei.hawaii.edu/news/hnei-researchers-participate-2019-soest-open-house.

07/15/2019

HNEI's Grid System Technologies Advanced Research Team (GridSTART), in collaboration with Maui Electric Company (MECO) and with funding from the Office of Naval Research has proposed and installed a practical, inexpensive and effective solution to address the integration of very high levels of rooftop PV and the occasional excess of intermittent solar energy produced in aggregate by the PV systems on the Island of Moloka‘i.

The Grid System Technologies Advanced Research Team (GridSTART) of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI), University of Hawaii, in collaboration with Maui Electric Company (MECO) and with funding from the U.S.

09/26/2018

Director of Innovation Signo Uddenberg at ANFA 2018 Conference Director of Innovation Signo Uddenberg was a poster presenter at this year’s Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture Conference at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. He presented on MKThink’s “ther...

05/08/2018

HNEI's Jim Maskrey, speaks about our research activities regarding net zero energy buildings in Hawaii with our partner MKThink. Additional information about this project can be found at https://www.hnei.hawaii.edu/projects/energy-neutral-buildings-performance-evaluation.

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03/03/2018

Join HNEI Director, Richard Rocheleau, and faculty member Jennifer Potter at the Maui Energy Conference on March 14-15. They will be participating in panels regarding energy efficiency and the state's 100% renewable RPS goals.

02/07/2018

HNEI Director, Richard Rocheleau states that the HIDOE Thermal Comfort website (http://hnei.hidoe-thermal-comfort.4dapt.com/) allows for "the linkage to interior environmental conditions [which] also offers the opportunity to further the understanding between environment and building performance.”

HNEI Director Rick Rocheleau says website access to classroom conditions helps to further understand the linkage between environment and building performance.

01/25/2018

HNEI has partnered with the Hawaii State Department of Education to create the HIDOE Thermal Comfort Portal (http://hnei.hidoe-thermal-comfort.4dapt.com/) where environmental data collected at Hawaii's public schools is accessible.

The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) is taking another step to monitor and adjust classroom temperatures. Beginning this month, the HIDOE Thermal Comfort website will feature data from 37 schools with weather stations and 62 schools with indoor sensors that monitor classroom temperatures...

11/13/2017

HNEI faculty member Pat Cross spoke to PBS NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson about our efforts involving wave energy at the test site in Kaneohe Bay.

When it comes to renewable energy, Hawaii stands out, with 15 percent of the state's power coming from solar and wind. Now, the state may be pioneering another renewable form of energy: ocean waves. NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson visited a naval base in Hawaii, where researchers are testing a new...

02/04/2017

HNEI Assistant Researcher, Dr. Trevor Morgan, co-authored the book Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterization and Analysis, Second Edition.

The publisher, Elsevier, states that this book "integrates the developments that have taken place since publication of the first edition in 2006. This updated material includes new insights that help unify the thermochemical reactions of biomass and coal, as well as new developments in analytical techniques, including new applications in size exclusion chromatography, several mass spectrometric techniques, and new applications of nuclear magnetic spectroscopy to the characterization of heavy hydrocarbon liquids."

The book is available at https://www.elsevier.com/books/solid-fuels-and-heavy-hydrocarbon-liquids-thermal-characterization-and-analysis/kandiyoti/978-0-08-100784-6.

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02/04/2017

HNEI's Hawaii Sustainable Energy Research Facility (HiSERF) is featured in the Springer Handbook of Electrochemical Energy. The handbook featured a chapter entitled “Modern Fuel Cell Testing Laboratory” based on HiSERF. The chapter describes the laboratory’s background and evolution, safety and test stations, fuel cell components and assembly, and testing and diagnostic techniques. Many of our HNEI-HiSERF staff contributed to this chapter.

The handbook is available at http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783662466568.

This comprehensive handbook covers all fundamentals of electrochemistry for contemporary applications. It provides a rich presentation of related topics...