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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Team Hālona, advised by HNEI researchers, was selected as one of seven winners in the joint U.S. Department of Energy and NOAA Ocean Observing Prize: Design Contest. Their concept for an exceptionally innovative wave-powered...

An HNEI-led team, in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Uppsala University (Sweden), has been selected among the winners in the first two stages of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Waves to Water Prize...

A team from the University of Hawai‘i took first place against 14 other teams in the recently concluded Marine Energy Collegiate Competition. The competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technology Office and administered by the...

Work has begun on the three year project, led by HNEI Specialist Patrick Cross, that will develop a wave-energy converter concept culminating in a set of tests in a sophisticated mainland wave tank.  The University of Hawai‘i was awarded...

HNEI Specialist Patrick Cross spoke with PBS News Hour regarding HNEI’s research in wave generated energy at the U.S. Navy’s wave energy test site (WETS).  The interview overviews the wave energy conversion devices that are currently being tested at...

Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI) has deployed its “Azura” wave energy conversion (WEC) device in waters off Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) on the island of O‘ahu. The device will be deployed...

Work at the Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) located off Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i at Kane‘ohe has received an infusion of $9 million from the U.S. Navy. The funds, from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), are directed to the Applied Research Laboratory...