Adjunct Principal Research Fellow
Associate Professor HO Hiang Kwee

Hiang Kwee works at the National Climate Change Secretariat (www.nccs.gov.sg) as Lead Technologist, where his responsibilities include providing advice and assessment on energy technologies (for e.g. through the development of NRF/NCCS Technology Primers and Roadmaps) that can address climate change challenges, and modelling and analyzing energy and emissions flows in Singapore to provide greater understanding of the impacts of policy and technology measures and levers to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change impacts.

He is on a 2-year Leave of Absence from the DNV Clean Technology Centre (CTC) where he worked from 2010 to 2012 as Director (Urban Solutions) with responsibilities in business development and delivery of studies and consulting services in areas such as urban solutions and power, energy efficiency and management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Hiang Kwee also serves as the Chairman of the newly-formed Energy Standards Committee under the Standards Council (which provides industry-led advice to SPRING Singapore), Chairman of the Project Evaluation Panel of the Energy Innovation Research Programme, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Engineering.

Before joining DNV, Hiang Kwee was an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He was also on a joint appointment at A*STAR from 2007-2010, directing the Energy Technology Programme, and the Experimental Power Grid Centre (formerly SINERGY Centre). He has published technical papers and given presentations in many energy-related areas, including modelling of advanced fuel cell systems and life cycle assessment of energy conversion technologies.

• Techno-economic and life cycle modeling and analysis of energy technologies and systems, including for climate change mitigation
• Distributed power and renewable energy
• Energy management and energy efficiency

Selected Reports for Singapore government agencies

Development of Technical Specifications for Alternative Energy Technology R&D and Test-bed Centre, Final Report, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), 2007

The Economics of the Kyoto Protocol: A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Singapore, Report prepared for the Singapore Government, NUS-NTU Study Team, 2006.

Selected Research Publications

Zhang, X., Chan, S.H., Li, G., Ho, H.K., Li, J., Feng, Z., A review of integration strategies for solid oxide fuel cells, Journal of Power Sources 195 (3), pp. 685-702, 2010

Kannan, K.C. Leong, R. Osman and H.K. Ho, "Life Cycle Energy, Emissions and Cost Inventory of Power Generation Technologies in Singapore", Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 11 (4), pp. 702-715, 2007.

Kannan R, Leong KC, Ramli Osman, Ho HK and Tso CP, “Life cycle assessment study of solar PV systems: An example of a 2.7 kWp distributed solar PV system in Singapore”, Solar Energy, 80 (5), pp. 555-563, 2006.

Kannan R, Leong KC, Ramli Osman, Ho HK and Tso CP, Gas fired combined cycle plant in Singapore: energy use, GWP and cost—a life cycle approach, Energy Conversion and Management 46 (13-14) , 2145-2157, 2005.

Kannan, R., Tso, C.P., Osman, R., Ho, H.K., LCA-LCCA of oil fired steam turbine power plant in Singapore, Energy Conversion and Management 45 (18-19), pp. 3093-3107, 2004

Ho HK et al, Fuel cell research, development and demonstration activities in Singapore, Fuel Cells Bulletin, Elsevier, June 2004.

Chan, S.H., Ho, H.K., Tian, Y , Multi-level modeling of SOFC-gas turbine hybrid system, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 28 (8), 2003

Chan, S.H., Ho, H.K., Tian, Y. , Modelling for part-load operation of solid oxide fuel cell-gas turbine hybrid power plant , Journal of Power Sources 114 (2), pp. 213-227 , 2003

Chan, SH, Ho, HK, Tian, Y, Modeling of simple hybrid solid oxide fuel cell and gas turbine power plant, Journal of Power Sources 109 (1), pp. 111-120 , 2002

Wong ACB, Ho HK, and Teo CY, Use of an expert system shell to develop a power plant simulator for monitoring and fault diagnosis, International Journal of Electric Power System Research, Elsevier Sequoia, Lausanne, Volume 29,(1994), pp 27-33.

Selected presentations at conferences and technical meetings

LNG for distributed power generation and microgrid systems, PowerGen Asia 2011, Kuala Lumpur, September 2011.

Evaluating energy efficiency for complex and integrated energy systems, National Energy Efficiency Conference, Singapore, May 2011

Energy efficiency and management – system and life-cycle approach, Clean Energy Expo Asia Conference, Singapore, Nov 2010

Energy efficiency – a low hanging fruit?, ASME Singapore Energy Forum, Aug 2010.

Integrated energy systems, IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (ICSET), Singapore, Keynote speaker, Nov 2008.

Integration of renewable energy into minigrids, Renewable Energy Asia 2008, Invited speaker, Bangkok, June 2008.

Speaker at various ICEPAG (International Colloquium on Environmentally Preferred Advanced Power Generation) from 2005-2008, organized by Advanced Energy and Power Program, UC Irvine.

New and Alternative Energy Technologies: A Singapore Perspective, at SME/Next Energy Conference on “Tomorrow’s Energy .. Today”, Keynote speaker, Detroit, Oct 2006.

Presented Singapore Country Report at various Training Courses on Energy Conservation/Efficiency, and New and Renewable Energy at IEEJ (Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) and ECCJ (Energy Conservation Centre of Japan), 2005-6

Energy efficiency in Singapore, (with Wong YW), presented at Taiwan International Conference on Atmospheric Protection, 2005.

Keynote speaker at EnergyAsia’s Climate Change Forum, Singapore, Oct 2005