Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) is a research project led by the Department of Electrical Engineering within the University of Malta in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. This international collaboration is being locally coordinated by Dr Inġ. John Licari who is also the principal investigator assisted by Prof. Alexander Micallef, Prof. Inġ. Maurice Apap and Prof. Inġ. Cyril Spiteri Staines. Prof. Qingqing Yang is the project coordinator and principal investigator from the Chinese Institution assisted by Prof. Jianwei Li and Prof. Qifang Chen.

HESS received funding from the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MSCT) and the Ministry for Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST), through the SINO-MALTA Fund 2023 Call (Science and Technology Cooperation)