The Hawaii Ugly Attempt Neatness is business to thrill hydrogen to Hawaii islet. HNEI is in consideration afterward the state's moral geothermal energy machinery to use spare power from the woods to energy hydrogen complete electrolysis.
The hydrogen would be recycled to power three fuel cell shuttle buses in the same way as built by a contractor for the federally funded Hawaii Improper for Grown-up Transportation Technologies on Oahu. HCATT is retrofitting gas-powered 19-passenger ElDorado buses afterward hydrogen fuel cells that power electric motors. Two of the buses behest be recycled at Hawaii Volcanoes Testify Program, ever since the third behest rig the Hawaii Constituency Transit Agency's bus fleet, understood Edward Russell, HCATT proj-ect chief. HCATT buys the buses for just about 100,000 and spends further 300,000 to retrofit them afterward hydrogen fuel cells and batteries.
The HNEI is negotiating afterward Ormat, the owners of Puna Geothermal Ventures to buy "idle" power that it can't do business to Hawaii Emotional Spacious Co., understood James "Mitch" Ewan, the HNEI's hydrogen systems program chief. The association above and beyond is looking at other sources of renewable energy to confer the power for the electrolysis process if a put forward can't be reached afterward Puna Geothermal, Ewan understood.
