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4 November 2025. Feeding electricity from vehicle batteries into the grid can be financially worthwhile for users of e-cars and at the same time serve the electricity sector. This is illustrated by an analysis by the think tank Agora Verkehrswende, in which possible revenues from bidirectional charging in 2030 were calculated. Agora Verkehrswende recommends making...

Berlin, 14 October 2025 | Supermarket parking lots can help reduce the need for expansion of charging infrastructure in public spaces in Berlin by up to 17 percent. In the Retail4Multi-Use project, scientists from the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) and the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) have developed multi-use concepts for electromobility. These...

8th October, 2025 | Guest researcher Rihab Ayzzi from Morocco stays for three months at Reiner Lemoine Institute. Rihab is a renewable energy engineer with a focus on hydrogen systems and energy transition strategies. She works with the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI testing the Off-Grid Planner tool. We asked Rihab three questions about...

At the RLI Energy Dialogue 2025 on September 24, we discussed the future of energy policy and research and celebrated our institute’s 15th anniversary with many guests in Berlin – what a wonderful celebration! One thing became very clear: 15 years of successful, independent, and non-profit energy research at RLI show how much can be...

August 19, 2025 | Anna Glaum is a mechanical engineer and spends three months at RLI. She is a trainee at the network operator 50Hertz. As part of a cooperation between the company and RLI, Anna is gaining insights into the research work at RLI during her traineeship. We asked Anna three questions about her...

August 12th 2025 | By 2045, up to 26,000 electric trucks with a total electricity demand of up to 430 GWh per year could be registered in Berlin – this corresponds to the annual consumption of around 100,000 households and requires a strong and sustainable power grid. The charging infrastructure (LIS) in the capital must...

Mascha Richter, head of the RLI research unit Transformation of Energysystems, and Philipp Blechinger, head of the research unit Off-Grid Systems and the Reiner Lemoine Graduate School, are joining the advisory board for the CommunitE Innovation project run by the Alliance for Citizen Energy. As advisory board members, they will advise the project’s management team...

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...