August 2, 2022 Honolulu Climate Change Commission Issues Greenhouse Gas Mitigation GuidanceThe City and County of Honolulu's Climate Change Commission issued their guidance document "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Building Operation." This paper "provides potential actions for the City’s consideration in order to mitigate climate change through...
July 12, 2022 Governor Ige Visits HNEI Hydrogen StationHNEI was recently honored to host Governor Ige on a tour and demonstration of the HNEI recently commissioned hydrogen production and dispensing station at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawai‘i Authority (NELHA) campus located beside the Island...
July 6, 2022 HNEI Receives $300K from DOE to Boost Durability of Perovskite PVSince the first report of perovskite photovoltaic (PV) cells in 2009, tremendous research efforts on absorber chemistry have boosted the power conversion efficiency of this material class from 3.9% to 25.7%. Although impressive, this attribute alone...
July 1, 2022 Recent HNEI Publications (January – June 2022)Below is the list of peer-review papers published by HNEI faculty and staff from January to June 2022. HNEI researchers are notated with an asterisk after their name. 2022, L. Wang, Ø. Skreiberg, N. Smith-Hanssen, S....
May 18, 2022 HNEI Hydrogen Station Fills State’s First Hydrogen BusHNEI is pleased to announce that the first hydrogen bus used for public transportation was fueled on the 24th of March, 2022 at HNEI's hydrogen station located at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai‘i Authority (NELHA)...
May 16, 2022 HNEI Research Wins Symposium Best Paper Award at MRS MeetingAn HNEI team led by Dr. Matthieu Dubarry won a symposium best paper award for their work on desalination batteries as part of Symposium EN05: Emerging Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices—Degradation and Failure Characterization—From Composition,...
March 21, 2022 HNEI Commissions EV Chargers with Oʻahu’s First Power Exporting Interconnection AgreementThe Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute’s (HNEI) Grid System Technologies Advanced Research Team (GridSTART) has successfully installed and commissioned bidirectional electric vehicle (EV) chargers as part of a demonstration project aimed at managing the operation of shared...
January 1, 2022 Recent HNEI Publications (July – December 2021)Below is the list of peer-review papers published by HNEI faculty and staff from July to December 2021. HNEI researchers are notated with an asterisk after their name. 2021, J. Fu*, G. Allen, S. Weber*, S.Q....
December 15, 2021 HNEI’s Battery Work Highlighted at the UH Innovation Virtual ConferenceThe University of Hawai‘i's Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation hosted a virtual innovation conference, Blending of Culture and Science, in November. This conference highlighted a wide range of UH's efforts to create...
November 4, 2021 HNEI & ACCURE Battery Intelligence Collaborate on Battery Systems Research ProjectAccure Battery Intelligence and HNEI team up to develop novel approaches for the determination of the aging and safety status of field deployed battery systems. Within a joint research project planned for the next three years,...
