Hawai'i Okinawa Clean Energy Partnership Archive

12th Workshop

This workshop took place online February 15-24, 2022 (Hawaii Time).

Workshop Overview

Presentations

Each session will have pre-recorded video presentations. The program is available on this page below. Presentations will be hosted by YouTube, with captions available in English and Japanese. Videos will go live and the Workshop will begin on February 15.

Q&A

If you would like to ask questions to speakers, please use our form, which will be available in English or Japanese. The secretariat will respond via email after coordination with speakers.

Panel Discussion

A panel discussion will take place real-time via Zoom with simultaneous translation between English and Japanese. Please register if you would like to observe. This year's panel will take place February 24, 2022 from 15:00 Hawaii Time.

Program

See Below

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Program

The program for this year is below. You can also download a copy (pdf). Presentation videos are available on the video page.

No.	Presentation Title	Presenter Affiliation
Government Efforts and Policies
1-1	Hawaii State Efforts and Policies	Hawai'i State Energy Office
1-2	Okinawa Prefecture Efforts and Policies	Okianwa Pref. Industrial Policy Division
Renewable Energy Efforts
2-1	Okinawa Electric Power's Efforts towards Carbon Neutrality in 2050	Okinawa Electric Power Company
2-2	Towards 100% Renewable Energy on Kauai	Kauai Island Utility Cooperative
2-3	Scaling Biofuel for a Circular Society	Pacific Biodiesel
2-4	Hawaiian Electric Battery Bonus	Hawai'ian Electric Power Company
2-5	Okinawa Energy Initiatives for Carbon Neutrality in 2050	University of the Ryukyus
Hydrogen and Clean Transportation
3-1	Data and Policy for Clean Transportation	Hawai'i State Energy Office
3-2	The Chicken or the Egg?	Millenium Reign Energy
3-3	[Summary] Cabinet Decision on the Sixth Strategic Energy Plan (22-Oct-21)	Okinawa General Bureau Cabinet Office
3-4	Aloha Hydrogen – Renewable Hydrogen powering Clean Transportation on Hawaii Island	H2 Energy LLC
Renewable Ocean Energy Utlilzation
4-1	Ocean Thermal Developments around the World	Ocean Thermal Energy Association (OTEA)
4-2	Background on the Pre-Feasibility Study on the Introduction of Ocean Energy in the Republic of Nauru	Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga University
4-3	About Research and Development of "Circulation-type Wave Power Pumped-storage Generation" that Makes Effective use of Ocean Energy	Sound Power Co.
4-4	An Update on Recent and Upcoming Deployments at the Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site	Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI)
Energy Markets
5-1	Community-Based Renewable Energy / Shared Solar in Hawai'i	Hawai'ian Electric Company
5-2	Trends in the Energy Market Centered on Okinawa	CTI Engineering
5-3	NEXTEMS Road to Carbon Neutrality in Miyakojima	NEXTEMS
Reference Presentation
6-1	Hawai'i Okinawa Clean Energy Partnership Introduction Video	Workshop Secretariat

Moderator

TSUTSUMI Jun-ichiro - University of the Ryukyus
Professor Emeritus

Jun-ichiro Giorgos Tsutsumi was born in Nagano, Japan, in 1954. He graduated from Kyushu Institute of Design, completing his master’s program and from the graduate school of Kyushu University’s Doctoral program. He was conferred a doctoral degree in engineering in 1987 and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences for two years. He was an associate professor at the University of the Ryukyus since 1993 and a full professor since 2002. He worked as a visiting researcher at University of Freiburg, Germany and North Carolina State University in 1996 and as a research fellow at East West Centre, Hawaii in 2001. “Giorgos” is an alias in Germany. He retired as a professor in March 2020 and was conferred Professor Emeritus. He is specializing in building and urban environmental engineering, climate change, urban planning, renewable energy and waste management. In 2021 he was awarded the Okinawa Prefecture Environmental Conservation Achievement Award.

Panel Date/Time: Thursday, February 24, 15:00 HST

Panelist	Panelist Affiliation
TSUTSUMI Junichiro*	University of the Ryukyus, Professor Emeritus
Benjamin Martin**	Global Ocean reSource and Energy Association Institute Secretariat
Kelly King	Pacific Biodiesel, Co-Founder \| Maui County, Councilmember
YAGI Makoto	Okinawa Electric Power Company, Environment Department, Director
Yoh Kawanami	Hawaiian Electric Company, Customer Energy Resources Operations, Director
MIYAUCHI Toshiki	Tadasunomori Co., Ltd.
Patrick Cross	Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI), Marine/Ocean Energy, Program Manager

*Moderator

**Facilitator