Coming to the Big Island - A Sustainable EV Charging Station

EV Arc station, courtesy of Beam.

East Hawaii will be hosting its first EV Arc charging station, a solar + battery EV system. The system is being deployed at UH Community College in Hilo by GreeInvest. This stand-alone, portable charging solution has been deployed in several mainland cities and offers site owners flexibility in installing charging stations.

We look forward to seeing this station in operation and learning its features and functions. A solution like this offers us the opportunity to install chargers in locations that don't have adequate grid connections.

Here’s the company’s press release:

Hilo — March 22, 2022 — GreeInvest, LLC, a Hawaii-based company, will deploy the first solar powered Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station at Hawaii Community College (Hawaii CC), Manono Campus, in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

“The Big Island has a lot of avid EV owners who are frustrated with the lack of charging opportunities. After extensive research, I began working with BEAM Global, which manufactures solar-powered, portable EV chargers. Getting one of these chargers deployed on the Big Island became my goal and in April 2022, it will be a reality,” said GreeInvest CEO Michael Ryer.

The EV ARCTM was manufactured by BEAM Global, the leading provider of innovative sustainable technology for electric vehicle (EV) charging that is off-grid. It is completely powered by the sun via a 4.3 kW solar canopy and can provide up to 225 e-miles daily range, depending on local weather conditions. The device has a 21 x 10.6 ft canopy with a height of 15.3 ft. The unit sits on a base pad of 18 x 7.5 ft and weighs 12,500 lbs. The charger acquisition and transport to the Big Island was fully funded by GreeInvest.

GreeInvest, LLC and Hawaii CC have partnered for the next year to provide the college with the EV
ARC, which will give free charging to EV owners on campus. This partnership began with talks between GreeInvest LLC and the Hawaii CC Sustainability Committee over how sustainable charging options could be integrated onto the Hawaii CC campus. “Ideally, GreeInvest, LLC and Hawaii CC can together utilize the presence of the EV ARC to educate the community on what’s possible in terms of sustainable infrastructure” said Ryer.

GreeInvest, LLC was founded in 2020 on the principle of increasing society’s reliance on renewable
energy through sustainable electric vehicle charging. For more information on GreeInvest LLC: Website: http://www.greeinvest.com/