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,...
October 29, 2021 HNEI Researcher Named Associate Editor to the Journal FuelDr. Jinxia Fu, a HNEI Assistant Researcher, was recently named to the editorial board of the journal Fuel, a publication devoted to the science and technology of fuel and energy.
August 26, 2021 NSF Seeds a UHM & UW Partnership for Research and Education in MaterialsThe HNEI led University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and University of Washington (UW) Materials Research and Education Consortium (MRE-C) will develop foundational knowledge about advanced nano-to-macroscale defect-bearing and doped materials (boron compounds, chalcopyrites, layered quantum materials...
August 7, 2021 U.S. Navy Awards Additional $6M to ARL at UH for the Wave Energy Test SiteThe Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) awarded an additional $6 million to the Applied Research Laboratory at UH (ARL at UH), to support HNEI in continuing to provide critical research and logistical...
July 2, 2021 HNEI Researchers Analyze BESS Degradation Over 7 Years in Recent PublicationHNEI researchers from the PakaLi Battery Laboratory and GridSTART just published an analysis of a battery energy storage system degradation through seven years of field grid usage. The results showcase that the titanate based batteries showed little...
