Events

As part of the OpenPlan 2.0 research project, RLI researchers are working with their project partners to continuously develop the OpenPlan tool for the implementation of municipal heating plans. At the upcoming stakeholder workshop, they will present the tool’s latest features and explain how to use them. The workshop will take place on November 18,...

Ilka Cußmann, Head of the Energy Systems Transformation research unit, will be attending the Dena Congress 2026. As part of the Solutions Market session on “European Cooperation: Simplifying the Approval Process for Interconnectors,” Ilka will contribute to the discussion as a speaker. The discussion will focus on the following questions: How can these regulatory mandates...

At the upcoming Strommarkttreffen in Berlin, Jan Timo Meyer, researcher in RLI’s Mobility with Renewable Energies research unit, will provide input on the overarching topic of local electricity prices and grid fees. In his presentation, “The Impact of Local Flexibility Management on the Grid,” Jan Timo will report on the ErSiFlex project and present its...

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,...