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April 28, 2025 | Four years of research, 4,700 households and businesses surveyed, two tools and a knowledge pool: the PeopleSuN project shows what it takes for off-grid solutions to advance sustainable power supply in Nigeria. The PeopleSuN project aimed to improve access to reliable and sustainable energy in previously underserved regions in Nigeria. Researchers...

April 17, 2025 | Guest researcher Bachirou Djibo Boubé from Niger is staying for 6 months at the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI). He supports the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems with the development of electricity demand profiles for remote communities in West Africa regions using artificial intelligence for energy access. We asked Bachirou three questions about...

10 April 2025 | At the end of March, representatives of the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) of the Universities of Osnabrück and Oldenburg as well as the affiliated institute OFFIS – Institute of Computer Science founded the Open Energy Ontologies Foundry (OEO Foundry). The new initiative aims to develop structured knowledge models (ontologies) for the...

2 April 2025 | Berlin must make its heat supply climate-neutral – this is what the Heat Planning Act stipulates. Heat storage systems play a central role in this. This shows a joint project by the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and...

Vienna, 01.04.2025 | With more and more battery-electric trucks and buses on Austria’s roads, the need for charging infrastructure and the demands on the electricity grid are increasing. To support this ramp-up of e-mobility, the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) has joined forces with a German-Austrian consortium to develop a platform on which stakeholders involved in...

March 10, 2025 | The University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin) has appointed Dr. Kathrin Goldammer as an honorary professor. From summer semester 2025, the electrical engineer and Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Institute will become a professor at HTW Berlin in Faculty 1 Engineering – Energy and Information. Dr. Kathrin Goldammer complements the...

March 4, 2025 | More than 200 mayors and leaders from administration, politics, business, civil society and science today published the call “For a state of the future – call for courageous state reform”. RLI supports the initiative and calls on other individuals and organisations from politics, administration, business and civil society to join. RLI...

February 23, 2025 | In January 2025, Catherina Cader, Head of the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems and researcher Katrin Lammers embarked on their first project trip to Thailand as part of the Green-H2Islands project. Alongside initial analyses, the focus was on engaging with local stakeholders. The goal of the project is to expand the island’s...

February 19, 2025 | The Reiner Lemoine Institute has opened a position for a Senior Researcher as part of a TRAJECTS-funded research stay. Starting in July for a period of three months, a scientist can work in the RLI Off-Grid team and research solutions for energy access using artificial intelligence. The aim is to further...

February 8, 2025 | On February 8, 2010, the Reiner Lemoine Foundation founded the Reiner Lemoine Institute. An independent research institute working scientifically on a future with 100 percent renewable energy. And the researchers at RLI have been doing this for 15 years with great success. “In 15 years, we have achieved two things: we...