DLNR is fully committed to taking ambitious action over the next five years to accelerate achieving State goals for renewable energy and efficiency standards in its buildings, facilities, and vehicles; and providing incentives to its employees to encourage actions that will affect behavior and mode-shift throughout the State of Hawai‘i. Here we identify and outline some near-term strategy components currently being investigated and piloted by us. 

Currently, DLNR’s fleet, which mainly consists of trucks, operates on gasoline or petro-diesel. Given these characteristics, a three-fold emissions reduction strategy is recommended for DLNR to 1)  Transition its fleet to clean renewable/alternative fuels (increase the proportion of renewable/clean energy in its total energy/fuel use; 2) Make its fleet as fuel efficient as possible (increase fuel efficiency); and 3) Right size its fleet to reduce emissions. Specifically, DLNR could:

1. Switch to renewable and low emission biodiesel B100 for its trucks;
2. Adhere to vehicle procurement hierarchy, but emphasize ICE hybrid vehicle procurement to lower emissions, where there are no EV or alternative fuel options;
3. Develop and deploy charging infrastructure for EVs;
4. Procure EVs for DLNR’s light duty passenger vehicles, and install telematics;
5. Develop a carshare program for DLNR’s light duty vehicles; and
6.  Investigate alternative fuels such as hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and others.