Events

The RLI is present at the upcoming Open Energy Modeling Workshop in Freiburg. Over the course of two days, Sarah Berendes, Moritz Schlösser, and Jonas Huber from the Energy Systems Transformation research division, along with Manuel Wahl from the Renewable Energy Mobility team, will present on the RLI’s modeling work and network with other modelers....

Juliane Arriens, Head of the RLI Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energies, will participate in the Ukraine Symposium 2026: Hydrogen Futures – From Vision to Sustainable Value Generation and contribute to a panel discussion. In Session IV: “From Coal Miners to Hydrogen Technicians — People, Skills, and Regional Futures,” Juliane will join other panelists to...

The oemof developer meeting brings together open-source software developers. From September 23–25, the developers will meet in Bingen. Sarah Berendes and Stefanie Nguyen from the Transformation of Energy Systems research unit will attend the meeting on behalf of the RLI. The oemof developers’ meeting takes place twice a year. At the meeting, developers present how...

Juliane Arriens, head of the Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energies, is a speaker at the AI Energy Summit in Augsburg. With the growing share of renewable energies, increasing complexity and short response times, grid operation characterized by fixed rules is increasingly reaching its limits. As part of the panel, various experts will give lectures...

RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer and Timo Beyer from the Communications Department will give a lecture at SciCAR on the topic: “Between Transparency and Risk: How Open Data Strengthens the Resilience of the Energy Supply”. They will talk about how data blocks often only mean a false sense of security and about the relevance of open energy data for resilient energy systems and data journalistic reporting. In...

Gombodshaw Boß, researcher in the unit Mobility with Renewable Energy at the Reiner Lemoine Institute, will present results from the Retail4Multi-Use research project at the NaKoMo lecture “Sharing charging stations in retail – opportunities for municipalities”.  Gombodshaw will talk about how existing charging infrastructure in retail parking lots can be better utilized and made accessible...

Clara Neyrand and Julian Fleischmann, researchers in the RLI’s Off-Grid Systems Research Unit, will participate in a side event at Tropentag 2026 in Göttingen. PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area – is bringing together various research projects it funds in a roundtable format to address the topics of water, agriculture,...

Gombodshaw Boß, researcher in the Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energies, participates in the SDEWES conference. He will give a lecture entitled “Energy Scenarios for Inland Ports Using Open Data” as part of the ENETRA research project. The presentation will present an open data-based methodology for modelling and optimising energy systems in inland ports. Using...

Christine Kühnel, Managing Director at RLI, is attending the Berlin Heating Summit. At the event, Christine will moderate a panel discussion in which the leading candidates from various parties – or their representatives – running for the Berlin House of Representatives will discuss district heating, local heating, and social issues. Participants in the discussion include...

Christine Kühnel, Managing Director of RLI, will give a keynote speech at the event “From Heat Plan to Heat Transition” on how the heat transition can be driven forward from a scientific perspective and shaped in a socially just way. Other speakers will talk about the results of heat planning and the expansion strategy of...