February 4, 2017 HNEI Faculty Member, Dr. Trevor Morgan, Co-Authors BookHNEI 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...
February 3, 2017 HNEI’s HiSERF Featured in Springer Handbook of Electrochemical EnergyThe recently published Springer Handbook of Electrochemical Energy featured a chapter entitled “Modern Fuel Cell Testing Laboratory” based on HNEI’s Hawai‘i Sustainable Energy Research Facility. The chapter describes the laboratory’s background and evolution, safety and test...
November 10, 2016 Net Zero Buildings Open at UH MānoaTwo net zero buildings installed for the College of Education by the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute and funded by the Office of Naval Research, opened their doors to the public in celebration of the FROG 1...
September 24, 2016 Utility-Scale BESS Demonstration ProjectIn collaboration with Hawaiian Electric and with funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute is providing the lead to test and evaluate three Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) operating on...
June 7, 2016 Hawai‘i Clean Energy Final PEIS ReportIn July 2012, in coordination with the U.S. DOE and DBEDT, HNEI contracted New West Technologies to conduct a Programmatic Environmental Impact Study (PEIS) to analyze, at a programmatic level, the potential environmental impacts of clean...
April 29, 2016 Evaluation of Alternative Ownership Options for Electric Utility Assets on the Islands of O‘ahu and Hawai‘iThis report, prepared by Filsinger Energy Partners for HNEI, presents an overview of the municipal and cooperative utility ownership models for the islands or O‘ahu and Hawai‘i, including potential benefits and challenges associated with acquiring, financing,...
January 6, 2016 Fiery Ice ConferenceThis year's theme, "15 Years of Progress and Future Directions" will highlight accomplishments and changes in hydrate science and engineering since the first workshop in 2001, and identify directions for the future. A primary objective will...
November 13, 2015 Creating Renewable GasolineCreating gasoline and biodiesel from readily available microbial organisms may sound too good to be true, but that is exactly what researchers at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are...
October 11, 2015 Should LNG be an option for Hawai‘i?The HNEI's John Cole recently co-authored a piece for Global Island News on whether LNG should be an option for Hawai‘i.Excerpt:"For the last few years, Hawai‘i has been considering the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
September 10, 2015 Work in Bioplastics Leads to $1.4 Million ContractThanks to the efforts of a Hawai‘i Natural Energy Institute researcher, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa has signed an exclusive global research contract with Bio-On, an Italian intellectual property company, representing a $1.4 million investment.Dr....
